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Trying Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.
- If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question…
- ...jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies…
- The threat of China is not military. The threat of China is they can't be intimidated. Europe you can intimidate. When the US tries to…
- 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…
- It’s pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest…
- But, that's the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to limit the public…
- 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…
- It hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world’s…
- Suppose that the US really is trying to get rid of drugs in Colombia. Does Colombia then have the right to fumigate tobacco farms in…
- So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful societies…
- Efforts can succeed over time, and not trying ensures that the worst will happen.
- Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming organized and active…
- Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free…
- 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…
- Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time.
- Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.†A variant to keep in mind is that if…
- 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…
- The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Whoever is trying to bring you down is already beneath you. — Nishan Panwar
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash
- Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your… — Rowan Atkinson
- Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are… — Rajneesh
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin