Situation Quotes by Noam Chomsky

10 Situation quotes by Noam Chomsky

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When the world feels tangled, Chomsky's brief set of reflections cuts to the heart of why contexts matter. These ten lines offer a clear lens on power, language, and the forces that steer our daily reality.

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A bombing was planned [in Syria], which would probably make the situation worse, but would at least establish US credibility.

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We're now in a situation in which Capital is highly mobile and Labour is basically immobile.

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The Russians were doing a lot of rotten things, you can point to them. But the idea that if you consider what…

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Right now, huge numbers of people cannot obtain even drinking water, and the situation is likely to become worse with predicted climate…

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Evolutionary theory has nothing to say, in general, as to whether cheating is more advantageous than cooperating. There are many circumstances in…

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I haven't seen any claim that Piraha lacks recursion, that is, that there are a finite number of sentences or sentence frames.…

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After World War II there were many Jews who remained in refugee camps...President Harry F. Truman called for the Harrison Commission to…

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No one is concerned with Central America anymore. If a million people are facing starvation in northern Nicaragua and Honduras, it's none…

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I don't think there is any scientific evidence about the question of whether we think only in language or not. But introspection…

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Since November 8, 2017 the United States is literally alone in the world in first of all refusing to join in efforts…

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The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it…

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I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two…

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American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a…

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There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion…

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This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.

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There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people…

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There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't…

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The 50,000 Korean mercenaries we had in Vietnam were professional killers and just massacred people outright. And the American army did plenty of that…

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