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Them Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.
- There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
- If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question…
- I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.
- Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.
- The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the…
- I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at…
- There was no direct way to prevent the Boston murders. There are some easy ways to prevent likely future ones: by not inciting them. That's…
- By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously, every…
- ...jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies…
- 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…
- Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There were the people…
- Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do is ban the…
- It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The…
- Now, the Libertarian Party, is a *capitalist* party. It's in favor of what *I* would regard a *particular form* of authoritarian control. Namely, the kind…
- Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory is one of…
- I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself to somebody and…
- The general public are not even aware of major decisions that will determine their fate, hence are in no position to influence them
- In the Occupied Territories, what Israel is doing is much worse than apartheid. The South African Nationalists needed the black population. That was their workforce.…
- How do I define God? I don't.... People who find such conceptions important for themselves have every right to frame them as they like. Personally,…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- People always follow the crowd. Be brave, Dare to do something different. Let the crowd follow you. Instead you follow them. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle