As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
Quote by Noam Chomsky
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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Noam Chomsky Quotes
- Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.
- I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.
- Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
- If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
- I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.
- 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.
- In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
- Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.
- In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.
- The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!
Best Quotes
- If we try to give smile to others, unknowingly it comes back to our face.
- Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
- I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
- Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
- For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else.
- Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.
- Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
- No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
- It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.