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Quotes from American Power and the New Mandarins — Noam Chomsky

born 1928 United States

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To me it seems that what is needed is a kind of denazification.

American Power and the New Mandarins (1969)

In an important way, by doing so he degrades himself, and insults beyond measure the victims of our violence and our moral blindness.

American Power and the New Mandarins (1969)

One who pays some attention to history will not be surprised if those who cry most loudly that we must smash and destroy are later found among the administrators of some new system of repression.

American Power and the New Mandarins (1969)

No less insidious is the cry for 'revolution,' at a time when not even the germs of new institutions exist, let alone the moral and political consciousness that could lead to a basic modification of social life.

American Power and the New Mandarins (1969)

The war is simply an obscenity, a depraved act by weak and miserable men, including all of us who have allowed it to go on and on with endless fury and destruction - all of us who would have remained silent, had stability and order been secured.

American Power and the New Mandarins (1969)

After decades of anti-Communist indoctrination, it is difficult to achieve a perspective that makes possible a serious evaluation of the extent to which Bolshevism and Western liberalism have been united in their opposition to popular revolution.

American Power and the New Mandarins (1969)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Noam Chomsky (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.