Hegemony or Survival Quotes

“Another problem with the official definitions of terror is that it follows from them that the US is a leading terrorist state.”
― Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance

“Destroying hope is a critically important project. And when it is achieved, formal democracy is allowed—even preferred, if only for public relation purposes. In more honest circles, much of this is conceded. Of course, it is understood much more profoundly by beasts in men's shapes who endure the consequences of challenging the imperatives of stability and order.”
― Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance

“Terrorism, he said is 'a reaction to the injustice in the region's domestic politics, inflicted in large part by the US.”
― Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance

“It is useful to remember that no matter where we turn, there is rarely any shortage of elevated ideals to accompany the resort to violence.”
― Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance

“In September 2002 the Bush administration announced its National Security Strategy, which declared the right to resort to force to eliminate any perceived challenge to US global hegemony, which is to be permanent. The new grand strategy aroused deep concern worldwide, even within the foreign policy elite at home. Also in September, a propaganda campaign was launched to depict Saddam Hussein as an imminent threat to the United States and to insinuate that he was responsible for the 9 – 11 atrocities and was planning others.”
― Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance

“An enemy combatant can be anyone that the US chooses to attack, with no credible evidence, as Washington concedes.”
― Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance

“An Egyptian writer added that 'living in a country with an atrocious human rights record that also happens to be strategically vital to US interests is an illuminating lesson in moral hypocrisy and political double standards.”
― Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance

“The missile crisis "was the most dangerous moment in human history," Arthur Schlesinger commented in October 2002 at a conference in Havana on the fortieth anniversary of the crisis, attended by a number of those who witnessed it from within as it unfolded. Desision-makers at the time undoubtedly understood that the fate of the world was in their hands. Nevertheless, attendees at the conference may have been shocked by some of the revelations. They were informed that in October 1962 the world was "one word away" from nuclear war. "A guy named Arkhipov saved the world," said Thomas Blanton of the National Security Archive in Washington, which helped organize the event. He was referring to Vasil Arkhipov, a Soviet submarine officer blocked an order to fire nuclear-armed toredoes in October 27, at the tensest moment of the crisis, when te submarines were under attack bu US destroyers, A devastating response would have been a near certainty, leading a major war.”
― Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance

“On almost all issues, citizens could not identify the stands of the candidates--as intended.”
― Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance

“one is tempted to believe that some people
in the White House worship Aztec gods—with the offering of Central American blood.”
― Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance

“A well-known Egyptian academic traces hostility towards the US to its support for 'every possible anti-democratic government in the Arab-Islamic world.....
... When we hear American officials speaking of freedom, democracy and such values, they make terms like these sound obscene.”
― Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance

“...though of course the weak would have to be insane to implement their rights”
― Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance