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Own Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
- Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own…
- As any good teacher knows, the methods of instruction and the range of material covered are matters of small importance as compared with the success…
- But, that's the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to limit the public…
- Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory is one of…
- Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.
- 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…
- My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone…
- Anarcho-syndic alism took for granted that working people ought to control their own work, its conditions, the enterprises in which they work, along with communities,…
- The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren't…
- Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.
- The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.
- The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop…
- 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…
- My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- 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
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov