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Rather Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one…
- Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we should conclude that…
- Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state by…
- Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons. Those who retain…
- 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…
- Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative institutions or of…
- If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally…
- Spaniards were condemned for appeasing terrorism by voting for withdrawing troops from Iraq in the absence of U.N. authorization - that is, for taking a…
More Rather Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your… — Rowan Atkinson
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle