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History Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
- The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to…
- The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit,…
- The threat of China is not military. The threat of China is they can't be intimidated. Europe you can intimidate. When the US tries to…
- 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's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
- Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you are…
- You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of…
- So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful societies…
- The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are…
- Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have few counterparts in…
- If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally…
- To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one of…
- The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction…
- 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…
- If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.
- Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance…
- The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
- History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
- 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.
- For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion…
- The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and…
More History Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough