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Humans Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to…
- Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
- 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…
- As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
- Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.
- Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.
- 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,…
- It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic…
- We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and…
- The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow specially designed to…
- The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor, which privileges the…
- There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind
- The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if you don't have…
- There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown…
- 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…
- Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative institutions or of…
- I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself to somebody and…
- A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive…
- The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on…
- There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them
- Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is…
- In some ways, [the student anti-sweatshop movement] is like the anti-apartheid movement, except that in this case its striking at the core of the relations…
- Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free…
- 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…
- I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — 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
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong