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See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

Noam Chomsky
People, Violence, One Thing
Noam Chomsky (2013). “Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky”, p.124, The New Press

My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century.

Noam Chomsky
Atrocities, Violence, Easy

If the most important revolutionary part of the George W. Bush Doctrine is that states that harbor terrorists are terrorist states, what do we conclude from that? We conclude exactly what Kissinger was kind enough to say: These doctrines are unilateral. They are not intended as doctrines of international law or doctrines of international affairs. They are doctrines that grant the U.S. the right to use force and violence and to harbor terrorists, but not anyone else.

Noam Chomsky
Law, Important, Violence
Source: progressive.org

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

Noam Chomsky
Use, Nuclear Proliferation, Violence
Noam Chomsky (2007). “Interventions”, p.142, City Lights Publishers

In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.

Noam Chomsky
Blow, Order, Violence
"Now it's a free for all". www.theguardian.com. May 16, 1999.

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.

Noam Chomsky
Use, Want, Violence

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s.

Noam Chomsky
Training, Arms, Violence
"Now it's a free for all". www.theguardian.com. May 16, 1999.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

Noam Chomsky
Judging, Violence, Dignity
"Noam Chomsky criticises old friend Hugo Chávez for 'assault' on democracy" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.

The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system.

Noam Chomsky
War, Atrocities, Violence

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

Noam Chomsky
Government, Tactics, Violence
Noam Chomsky (2013). “The Essential Chomsky”, p.82, The New Press

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