Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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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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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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