Noam Chomsky Quotes

Violence is absolutely not our method.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.

Anybody who resorts to violence will have no friends in the United States.

Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.

I do not condone the use of violence.

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

I'd never hurt another person.

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

Terror can never be defeated by force alone.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

No doubt it requires two to fight. But both of them need not necessarily be fighters. It is, all the same, a fight, even if one goes on beating and the other gets beaten. There is no guarantee that others would behave properly with us even if we remain peaceful and cordial with them.

Make Love, Not War

Violence has never resolved any issue.

I cannot accept violence.

An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.

Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.

If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.