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
- Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
- 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 principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
- The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.
- We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.
- The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
- The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
- The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
- Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
- Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
Best Quotes
- It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
- Start with a clean grill. Keep it clean by brushing with a wire brush after preheating, and again after cooking. Make sure to oil your grates and your food before putting it on the grill to keep it from sticking.
- They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.
- The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
- The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
- It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
- All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
- The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
- Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
- Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.