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Understood Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.
- Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state by…
- ... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome - not opportunity,…
- The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to produce new sentences,…
- That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on…
- The war against working people should be understood to be a real war…. Specifically in the U.S., which happens to have a highly class-conscious business…
- Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence…
- As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions…
- U.S. international and security policy ... has as its primary goal the preservationof what we might call the Fifth Freedom, understood crudely but with a…
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- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never… — Lee Atwater
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have… — Kevin Bacon
- I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting… — Javier Bardem
- Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that… — Roland Barthes
- While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than… — John Adams
- It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. — Charles Baudelaire