I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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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.
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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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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