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First Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules…
- 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…
- 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…
- In fact, it's doing it all over the world. Obama, first of all, is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history. The…
- There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other. It's…
- I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary first to establish…
- The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as to direct the thought of…
- Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.
- It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they were during the…
- Bolivia is a striking example. The mostly white, Europeanized elite, which is a minority, happens to be sitting on most of the hydrocarbon reserves. For…
- Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a…
- Unfortunately, you can’t vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place
- ...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that…
- The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain…
- In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time:…
- NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian…
- Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.
- Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
- The first scholarly edition of Magna Carta was published by the eminent jurist William Blackstone. It was not an easy task. There was no good…
- The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle