Noam Chomsky Quotes

I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners.

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

As the war on terrorism spreads and prolongs, the fruits of ending the threat of terrorism around the world will be tempered with a whole new series of problems to be addressed and resolved.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth—rocks!

Do not play with fire in Indonesia … let not the lack of understanding by America lead to a third world war.

History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease.

Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!

Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace.

Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.

I believe President Bush is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is not in search of peaceful and diplomatic solutions.

War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.