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Thrive Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
- If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
- In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to…
- If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
- The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one…
- There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.
- To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.
- The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
- Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
- Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
- We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least,…
- Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the rich and the…
- 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…
- 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…
- Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
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- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of… — Russell Baker
- You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov
- Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly… — Isaac Asimov
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius