"From a comparative perspective, the United States is……" — Noam Chomsky
"From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It is also unusual in the range and effectiveness of methods employed to restrain freedom of thought... Where the voice of the people is heard, elite groups must insure their voice says the right things."
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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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More Comparative Quotes
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God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of…
— Nicolas Cage
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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.
— George Santayana
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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is,…
— Karl Popper
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I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The whole aim of comparative anatomy is to discover what structures are homologous.
— Unknown Author
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Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out…
— Unknown Author
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Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who…
— Margaret Drabble
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It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is…
— Anthony Storr
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It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may,…
— David Ricardo
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