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Powerful Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
- The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to…
- The Bush Administration do have moral values. Their moral values are very explicit: shine the boots of the rich and the powerful, kick everybody else…
- It is not that I am not a fan of American exceptionalism. That is like saying I am not a fan of the moon being…
- States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent. States are violent…
- Remember, the U.S. is a powerful state, it's not like Libya. If Libya wants to carry out terrorist acts, they hire Carlos the Jackal or…
- Globalization is the result of powerful governments, especially that of the United States, pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats of the world’s…
- It’s pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest…
- Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the rich and the…
- Boards of directors are allowed to work together, so are banks and investors and corporations in alliances with one another and with powerful states. That’s…
- 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…
- So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful societies…
- The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to…
- For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.
- Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us, and that is…
- There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable…
- What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems,…
- In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the…
- Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance…
- The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups…
More Powerful Quotes
- It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a… — Julian Assange
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely,… — Charles Babbage
- Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness. — Mikhail Bakunin
- A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. — James A. Baldwin
- Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. — Ansel Adams
- I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver… — Tammy Baldwin
- I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches. — Alan Ball