"Modern science and technology can relieve men of……" — Noam Chomsky
"Modern science and technology can relieve men of the necessity for specialized, imbecile labor. They may, in principle, provide the basis for a rational social order based on free association and democratic control, if we have the will to create it."
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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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Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
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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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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are…
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I think that it's important that the American people know that Barack Obama didn't have a mild association with Bill…
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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other.…
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Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.
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Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules…
— Vince Cable
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I've never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association.
— Herman Cain
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Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I…
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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you…
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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.
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What you should say to outsiders is that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our Association than…
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