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Act Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons. Those who retain…
- The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize and act to…
- Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about democracy. If schools…
- Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe…
- In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent…
- A siege is an act of war.
- Right after the assassination of Osama bin Laden, amid all the cheers and applause, there were a few critical comments questioning the legality of the…
- In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which…
- Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first…
- I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is…
More Act Quotes
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold