Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
Quote by Noam Chomsky
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Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
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Noam Chomsky Quotes
- There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
- 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 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.
- Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
- The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful 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.
- 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.
- In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.
- 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.
- I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
Best Quotes
- There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
- I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.
- I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.
- I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.
- Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
- I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.
- The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
- If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
- Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people think about when they invest their money.
- It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.