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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
- 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.
- Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
- If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
- 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.
- 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.
- The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
Best Quotes
- All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
- Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
- Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
- As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.
- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
- Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.
- Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
- The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
- Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.