I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
Quote by Noam Chomsky
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I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
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Noam Chomsky Quotes
- 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 internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
- 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 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.
- Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
- If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
- 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.
- I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
- 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.
- There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
Best Quotes
- Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.
- Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
- The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
- Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
- I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.
- Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
- If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
- Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
- Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.