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Things Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- 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…
- 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…
- From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It is also unusual…
- There are plenty of things that are unknown, but are assumed reasonably to exist, even in the most basic sciences. Maybe 90 percent of the…
- I try to encourage people to think for themselves, to question standard assumptions... Don't take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a skeptical attitude toward…
- The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.
- That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
- If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for…
- Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up…
- Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky
- The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia…
- Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
- There are still thousands of people dying every year in Laos, mostly children and farmers, from unexploded anti-personnel ordnance that the U.S. simply saturated much…
- Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.
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- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
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