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Information Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize to…
- 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…
- There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". ... Language can be used to transmit information, but it…
- How it is we have so much information, but know so little?
- The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political…
- Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery.
- There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism.
- In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which…
- There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then…
- As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions…
- The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.
More Information Quotes
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. — Julian Assange
- I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses… — Frank Abagnale
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange
- That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that… — Julian Assange
- We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are… — Julian Assange
- Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform.… — Julian Assange
- I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me. — Sean Astin
- The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the… — Ibrahim Babangida
- Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. — Charles Babbage
- We aren't using Guantanamo Bay anymore to take additional terrorists. That was the perfect facility to be able to use to extract… — Michele Bachmann
- An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often… — Russell Baker