If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
Quote by Noam Chomsky
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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Noam Chomsky Quotes
- In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.
- 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 only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
- 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!
- 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 more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
- The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
- 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 Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
- There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
Best Quotes
- Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
- Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.
- I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella.
- It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
- I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
- Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.
- It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
- Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
- I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.
- Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.