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Quotes from Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times — Noam Chomsky

born 1928 United States

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They can't comprehend what your question is, because you can't comprehend that we should apply to ourselves the standards that you apply to others. That is incomprehensible!

Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times (2002)

The hypocrite is the person who refuses to apply to himself the standards that he applies to others. By that standard, the entire commentary and discussion of the so-called "war on terror" is pure hypocrisy, virtually without exception.

Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times (2002)

If you take a poll among U.S. intellectuals, support for bombing Afghanistan is just overwhelming, but how many of them think that you should bomb Washington because of the U.S. war against Nicaragua, let's say, or Cuba or Turkey, or anyone else?

Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times (2002)

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