"We still name our military helicopter gunships after……" — Noam Chomsky
"We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy, I suppose people would notice."
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588 Quotes by Noam Chomsky
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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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If someone starts talking about pride today I'm going to vomit... The Apache nation had pride and look where they…
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Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever,…
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People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I…
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People do not think in English or Chinese or Apache; they think in a language of thought. This language of…
— Steven Pinker
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Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its…
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... when I heard Apache by the Shadows, that was it ! ...then there was a guitar player named Steve…
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PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work…
— Ambrose Bierce
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For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous…
— David Abram
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Bjorn Borg looks like a hunchbacked, jut-bottomed version of Lizabeth Scott, impersonating a bearded Apache princess.
— Clive James
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I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will…
— Rasmus Lerdorf
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Certainly I get a lot personally out of it as well, there's the recognition and things like that but mostly…
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