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Something Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
- Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize to…
- If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live…
- 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…
- The point of public relations slogans like 'Support our troops' is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want…
- If something is right (or wrong) for us, it’s right (or wrong) for others. It follows that if it’s wrong for Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and…
- As long as people are marginalized and distracted [they] have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know that others have these…
- There's a very committed effort to convert the US into something resembling a Third World society, where a few people have enormous wealth and a…
- As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists. What they call themselves doesn’t…
- If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.
- People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action. They…
- Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.' One will be hard put to find something like 'democratically…
- French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go…
- 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…
- Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.
- The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics - greatest progress there. But one of the reasons…
- If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
- 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…
- It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.
More Something Quotes
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- People always follow the crowd. Be brave, Dare to do something different. Let the crowd follow you. Instead you follow them. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino