"If you are working 50 hours a week……" — Noam Chomsky
"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 declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works."
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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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I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs'…
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You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The…
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If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man…
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Language is the archives of history.
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In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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I've making videos since I was seventeen I was originally discollecting vintage hmmm... footages from different archives and setting moving…
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We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it…
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Healing requires far more of us than just the participation of our intellectual and even our emotional resources. And it…
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Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers…
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Kids talk to me and say they want to do musicals again because they've studied the tapes of the old…
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There’s a level at which words are spirit and paper is skin. That’s the fascination of archives. There’s still a…
— Susan Howe
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Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are…
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