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If you want to end terrorism stop participating in it.
Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky
Age: 95
Born: 1928
Born: December 7
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As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.
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