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Work Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
- In any institution-factory, university, health center, or whatever-there are a variety of interests that ought to be represented in decision-making: the work force itself, the…
- As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists. What they call themselves doesn’t…
- I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself to somebody and…
- A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive…
- Boards of directors are allowed to work together, so are banks and investors and corporations in alliances with one another and with powerful states. That’s…
- You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of…
- I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
- Anything that you are achieving that undermines and threatens systems of power will meet with oppression. Systems of power don't say 'thank you.' What's important…
- Anarcho-syndic alism took for granted that working people ought to control their own work, its conditions, the enterprises in which they work, along with communities,…
- That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
- 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…
- If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally…
- The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren't…
- You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.
- 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 appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.
- My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of…
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon
- Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me… — Lucille Ball
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson