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Structure Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- 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…
- Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules…
- The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based on free voluntary…
- In any institution-factory, university, health center, or whatever-there are a variety of interests that ought to be represented in decision-making: the work force itself, the…
- Why should workers agree to be slaves in a basically authoritarian structure? They should have control over it themselves. Why shouldn't communities have a dominant…
- Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you are…
- 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…
- Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time.
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- It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis… — Andre Agassi
- Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each… — Hermann Hankel
- It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and… — Ronald Reagan
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated… — Ibrahim Babangida
- It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or… — David Bowie
- Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. — A. R. Ammons