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Sense Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of…
- 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…
- When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military occupier…
- There isn't much point arguing about the word "libertarian." It would make about as much sense to argue with an unreconstructed Stalinist about the word…
- Growth is a funny sort of concept. For example, our GNP increases every time we build a prison. Well, okay, it’s growth in a sense...
- Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is…
- I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge…
- The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that…
- When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game?…
- If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its…
- The real world of American society is one which it is very misleading to call simply a democracy. Of course, it is in a sense…
- 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…
- Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
- The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
- It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself from U.S. domination.
- When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to…
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- 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
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen 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
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden