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Major Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph…
- 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…
- One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop. Marijuana can be grown…
- The general public are not even aware of major decisions that will determine their fate, hence are in no position to influence them
- Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if…
- One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a…
- 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…
- It's not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures- it's inevitable. But unless the process that is…
- There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population has to be…
- If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a…
- The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military…
- A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.
- In November 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched their second major attack on the city of Falluja. The press reported major war crimes instantly, with approval.
More Major Quotes
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. — David Attenborough
- It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. — Douglas Adams
- The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a… — Douglas Adams
- Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get… — Russell Baker
- My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history. — Russell Banks
- 'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip. — Scott Adams
- The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice. — Dave Barry
- At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in… — Kate Beckinsale
- Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language. — Hilaire Belloc
- We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a… — Robert Benchley
- The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind. — Henri Bergson