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Time Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.
- There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.
- Growth is a funny sort of concept. For example, our GNP increases every time we build a prison. Well, okay, it’s growth in a sense...
- Efforts can succeed over time, and not trying ensures that the worst will happen.
- Bolivia is a striking example. The mostly white, Europeanized elite, which is a minority, happens to be sitting on most of the hydrocarbon reserves. For…
- If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally…
- The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that…
- Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time.
- Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt,…
- In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time:…
- Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks,…
- Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and…
- In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an increasing disillusionment about…
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