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
- 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.
- Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.
- If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
- 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.
- The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
- Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
- The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.
- 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.
- I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
- The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Best Quotes
- Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
- Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
- The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.
- But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
- The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
- I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.
- No emancipation without that of society.
- When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.
- You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
- God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.