Humans Quotes by Noam Chomsky

No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism.

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Human language is nothing like the signalling systems of other animals.

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A functioning eco-system is a human need.

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There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be…

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Sea level rise and destruction of water resources as glaciers melt alone may have horrendous human consequences.

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The human digestive and visual systems did clearly evolve over a very long period.

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We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to…

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As long as nuclear weapons exist, the chances of survival of the human species are quite slight.

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In fact, there is a very close correlation between human rights violations and US aid, particularly in Latin America.

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We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about…

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Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

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During the 1990's, Colombia was the leading recipient of US military aid and training in the hemisphere. Approximately half of all US…

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Those who actually do have a valid claim to such special competence have a particular obligation to make very clear to the…

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I think that as human beings, we quite naturally take for granted what is similar among human beings and, then, pay attention…

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If you take an economics or a political science course, you're taught that humans are supposed to be rational wealth accumulators, each…

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There are huge areas where the human mind is apparently incapable of forming sciences, or at least has not done so. There…

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Anatomically modern humans are found up to 200,000 years ago; behaviourally modern humans appear very recently in evolutionary time, as far as…

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The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945,…

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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a…

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As for climate change, it's by now widely accepted by the scientific community that we have entered a new geological era, the…

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Take, say, the solidarity movement in Central America, which I think is what you probably had in mind. To a large extent,…

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In studying language we can discover many basic properties of this cognitive structure, its organization, and also the genetic predispositions that provide…

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...a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people…

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Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am)…

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The most extreme types, like Murray Rothbard, are at least honest. They'd like to eliminate highway taxes because they force you to…

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I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary…

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Imagine an extrahuman observer looking at us. Such an extrahuman observer would be struck precisely by the uniformity of human languages, by…

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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

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The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to…

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Blacks have no rights - in fact they were three - fifths human according to the constitution to give slave owners more…

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There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of…

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Bear in mind that capitalism is a tiny period of human society. You never really had capitalism, you always had one or…

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People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have…

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It's true that many say that [they] object to the idea of "human nature," but it's not clear what that is supposed…

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If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.

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Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically.

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There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

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It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.

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Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

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Peter Kropotkin was surely on the left. He was one of the founders of what is now called 'sociobiology' or 'evolutionary psychology'…

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