Power and Terror - Noam Chomsky in Our Times Quotes

Noam Chomsky: ...read George Bush's favorite philosopher: there's a famous definition in the Gospels of the hypocrite, and the hypocrite is a person who refuses to apply to himself the standards he applies to others. By that standard the *entire* commentary and discussion of the so-called 'war on terror' is *pure* hypocrisy, and virtually without exception... It's ugly, but it's standard.

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Noam Chomsky: [about 9/11] Obviously a horrible atrocity but, you know I reacted pretty much the way people did around the world. Terrible atrocity, but unless you're in Europe and the United States you know, or Japan I guess, you know, it's nothing new. That's the way the imperial powers have treated the rest of the world for hundreds of years. This is historic event but not, unfortunately not because of scale but for the nature of the atrocity, but because of who the victims were. You look through hundreds of years of history, the imperial countries have been basically immune. There's plenty of atrocities, but they're somewhere else.

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