"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." — Noam Chomsky
"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."
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Noam Chomsky
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588 Quotes by Noam Chomsky
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all…
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Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel…
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In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans,…
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound…
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued -…
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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or…
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There is one experiment which I always like to try, because it proves something whichever way it goes. A solution…
— Wilder Dwight Bancroft
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Hollywood parties not only confuse me, but they often disillusion me. The disillusion comes when I meet a movie star I’ve been…
— Marilyn Monroe
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Love is the force that leaves you colorless
— Ovid
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Colors are primordial ideas, children of the aboriginal colorless light and its counterpart, colorless darkness Light, that first phenomenon of…
— Johannes Itten
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First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness,…
— Gautama Buddha
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How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip…
— Afrika Bambaataa
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But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had…
— Albert Camus
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If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize…
— Rudolf Flesch
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I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular…
— Henry Louis Gates
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To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept,…
— Arthur Honegger
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When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black; I don't want them to see…
— Marian Anderson
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