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
- There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
- 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.
- In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
- If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
- 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.
- The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
- There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
- Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
- 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.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
- The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
- The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
- I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
- My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends, It gives a lovely light.
- To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
- Photography is an art of language that everyone can feel and understand.
- As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
- Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.