"If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe……" — Noam Chomsky
"If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa."
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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 Amazonian Quotes
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I did go into the Amazonian region of Brazil. They have prehistoric river fish that weigh in at around 600…
— Anthony Bourdain
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A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her…
— Elizabeth Cunningham
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The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings…
— Neil Gaiman
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Ella's supersonic voice followed her all the way to Bleecker Street and then dissolved amid the noisy profusion of shops,…
— Francine Pascal
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By the way, Wonder Woman is Amazonian, and historically accurate Amazonian women actually had only one breast. So, if I'd…
— Gal Gadot
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The Psblurtex is an 18-inch long anaconda that hides in the gentlemen's outfitting departments of Amazonian stores and is often…
— Mike Harding
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Cavalli is all about being a strong woman - being sexy and powerful. Which is how we'd like to feel,…
— Georgia May Jagger
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I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary…
— Stephen Fry
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It used to be thought that the events that changed the world were things like big bombs, maniac politicians, huge…
— Neil Gaiman
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Well what's in your Amazonian hope chest?
— Rachel Cohn
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When I first began modeling, I was very conventional looking. I had hair down to my waist in a side…
— Erin O'Connor
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There are great slender models, great tall models, Amazonian models, great busty models - my point is models of all…
— Erin O'Connor
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