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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
- 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!
- The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
Best Quotes
- My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.
- You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.
- All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
- Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.
- Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
- We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
- Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.
- Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.
- I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
- I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.