"One might ask why tobacco is legal and……" — Noam Chomsky
"One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop. Marijuana can be grown almost anywhere, with little difficulty. It might not be easily marketable by major corporations. Tobacco is quite another story."
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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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[Answering whether there was life in other worlds, he said there probably was.] After all, there's plenty of unearthly looking…
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It is a reality that we have complete control of organised Christianity. Almost anywhere, completely. We 'Jews' must become lawyers…
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Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than…
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I now derive physical and spiritual pleasure from gardening and there is tremendous satisfaction in knowing that I could survive…
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What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you're not in a hurry.
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I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what…
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I'm not a fan almost anywhere of announcing to the enemy of what I'm going to do.
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What a rare joy it is to linger in the lucid, transcendent worlds of Jennifer Maier's poems. In taut, precise…
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really…
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I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is…
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They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass…
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