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Systems Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- 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…
- 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…
- The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor, which privileges the…
- Anything that you are achieving that undermines and threatens systems of power will meet with oppression. Systems of power don't say 'thank you.' What's important…
- Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.
- The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions,…
- What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems,…
- As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.
- Unlike Iran, Israel refuses to allow inspections at all, refuses to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, has hundreds of nuclear weapons, has advanced delivery systems.
- The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics - greatest progress there. But one of the reasons…
- As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions…
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- While I wholeheartedly support finding cost savings through efficiencies in all areas of the federal government, including defense, I will resist any… — Unknown Author
- Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must… — John Rawls
- Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is only half-jokingly… — James Gleick
- We humans are a complex interwoven system of the body, the mind, and the spirit. We are formed and informed by the… — Ann Scott
- I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served… — Marc Garneau