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Means Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.
- 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 media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to the press conferences.…
- The point of public relations slogans like 'Support our troops' is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want…
- The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great…
- Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There were the people…
- In any institution-factory, university, health center, or whatever-there are a variety of interests that ought to be represented in decision-making: the work force itself, the…
- I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
- That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for.…
- Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
- Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack.
- Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence…
- In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students.
- A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with…
More Means Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- 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