"That is what I have always understood to……" — Noam Chomsky
"That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met."
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588 Quotes by Noam Chomsky
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