“I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.”

Able States Courageous

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“You might recall, perhaps, that we were probably the only commentators to rely on the most knowledgeable source, State Department intelligence.”

War Might States

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“The UN can go as far as the U.S. will allow, and no further. And it's bound by conditions that the powerful states, which means mostly the U.S., impose.”

Mean Powerful States

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“If commissars in Soviet Russia agreed to subordinate themselves to state power, they could at least plead fear in extenuation. Their counterparts in more free and open societies can plead only cowardice.”

States Russia Cowardice

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“While the state can coerce, with some exceptions (like North Korea) it seems to me misleading to think of it as capable of "enslavement."”

Thinking States Korea

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Mario Vargas Llosa

Novelist, Essayist

“North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.”

States Development American Society

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