"Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon,……" — Noam Chomsky
"Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world."
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588 Quotes by Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky has 588 quotes on this site.
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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 Analogue Quotes
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The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship…
— Unknown Author
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Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a…
— Richard Owen
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Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress…
— Edward Bellamy
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Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.
— Austin O'Malley
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It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between happens and is,…
— Wolfgang Kohler
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In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth…
— Martin Gardner
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I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I…
— Billy Sherwood
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I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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The peculiar interest of magic squares and all lusus numerorum in general lies in the fact that they possess the…
— Paul Carus
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In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken…
— David Abram
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Digital technology, you see, is not the villain here. It simply offers another dimension. I'm not sure if it's a…
— Lewis Baltz
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The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space…
— Elizabeth Edwards
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