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
- 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 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.
- The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
- If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
- As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
- 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.
- Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
- The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
- If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.
- Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
- If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.
- Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
- In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
- Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.
- True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
- Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
- Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.