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
- The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful 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.
- There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
- 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!
- Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
- 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.
- If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
- 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 intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
- If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
Best Quotes
- Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
- Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.
- If I go into a sandwich shop or anywhere that features 'Today's specials' on a chalkboard more than 10 feet away, I have to ask for a printed menu. I smile at people I don't know on the street and ignore those I do. When at home, I often find myself grabbing my 'back-up' glasses to search for the better-loved pair I have left on top of my dresser.
- Forgiveness is the final form of love.
- Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
- He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
- When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.
- When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
- My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.