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Noam Chomsky Quotes

American - Activist | December 7, 1928 -

It is pretty ironic that the so-called 'least advanced' people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

People Society Drive Trying Powerful

For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.

World Difficult Up Even Many

Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what's called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it.

You Early Nobody Say Try Grammar

From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over whatever it wants in the West Bank, maintaining the brutal siege on Gaza, separating Gaza from the West Bank and, of course, occupying the Syrian Golan heights, all with full U.S. support.

Support View Point Of View Way Over

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.

Freedom Great Society Free Speech

The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.

Bank Two Single Divided Determined

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

American President Laws Been Would

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

Animal World Language Unique Human

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

Democracy Propaganda State

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

War Environmental Problems Survival

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!

Communication Speed Place More Email

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Education Best Opportunities Rich

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