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Thinking Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well,…
- The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if you don't have…
- One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam war? The average…
- I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they…
- 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…
- 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…
- Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an innocent victim only if we…
- ... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome - not opportunity,…
- 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…
- Everyone engaged in research must have had the experience of working with feverish and prolonged intensity to write a paper which no one else will…
- I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary first to establish…
- One of the truths about the world is that there are two superpowers, one a huge power which happens to have its boot on your…
- 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 indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.
- Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if…
- I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies.…
- 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…
- The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for…
- This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would think the country has gone insane.
- Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe…
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