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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
- 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.
- 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.
- I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
- 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.
- The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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- Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.
- He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
- Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
- The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.
- We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
- Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
- A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.