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Ideas Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
- I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they…
- As long as people are marginalized and distracted [they] have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know that others have these…
- 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…
- What can one say about a country where a museum of science in a great city can feature an exhibit in which people fire machine…
- Anarchism, in my view, is an expression of the idea that the burden of proof is always on those who argue that authority and domination…
- Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.
- 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…
- We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.
- The beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It's very hard…
- If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas for people in…
- Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind is that if…
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- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe