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Reason Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
- Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.
- We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and…
- There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown…
- As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into thinking there is…
- There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
- 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…
- There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". ... Language can be used to transmit information, but it…
- I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies.…
- It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they were during the…
- NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian…
More Reason Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong