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World Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
- 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…
- Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
- We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least,…
- In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
- The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the…
- In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities,…
- Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.
- When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after…
- There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism.
- Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and…
- It's like these people are programmed by Karl Rove. What he wants is to have liberal critics ridicule Bush because he says 'nucular' and 'misunderestimate'…
- The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize and act to…
- September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the US government does in the world…
- Virtually all informed observers agree that a fair and equitable resolution of the plight of the Palestinians would considerably weaken the anger and hatred of…
- Globalization is the result of powerful governments, especially that of the United States, pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats of the world’s…
- In much of the world the U.S. is regarded as a leading terrorist state.
- There's a very committed effort to convert the US into something resembling a Third World society, where a few people have enormous wealth and a…
- In fact, it's doing it all over the world. Obama, first of all, is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history. The…
- Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about democracy. If schools…
- Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York…
- It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The…
- 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…
- The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as to direct the thought of…
- One of the truths about the world is that there are two superpowers, one a huge power which happens to have its boot on your…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach