Noam Chomsky

After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators.

Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.

It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.

I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.

Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment... the European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.

My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential.

The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.

The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.