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Extent Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent. States are violent…
- As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into thinking there is…
- Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do is ban the…
- The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others to…
- A basic principal of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.
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- The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing. — Joseph Addison
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