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Too Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of…
- Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize to…
- There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
- We're supposed to worship Adam Smith but you're not supposed to read him. That's too dangerous.
- 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…
- 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…
- I am not too happy with terms like “the leftâ€, to be honest. And I don’t use it much….if by “the left†you mean people…
- The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be…
- For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These…
- The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because…
- The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain…
- Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
- The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went…
- The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics - greatest progress there. But one of the reasons…
- It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using…
- The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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