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Noam Chomsky Quotes

Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status of the claims?' 'What social or ideological needs do they serve?'

Noam Chomsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 7, 1928

Topics

Questions Person Will Ask Two Serve

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Children Need Little Deceive Grown

Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?

John Ensign

Life Learning Purpose Think Thinking

Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn't think I could carry his shoes back then.

John Fogerty

Shoes Think Back Carry Idol Even

Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad's message made a whole lot of people feel whole again, human being again. Some of them came out and found a new meaning to their manhood and their womanhood.

John Henrik Clarke

People Feel Meaning New Human Out

The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.

Robert Jay Lifton

Medicine Kind Air Force Never Air

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

Angelina Jolie

Life Strength Diversity Everyone Our

My focus is on winning championships. I don't focus on anything else.

Metta World Peace

Focus Winning Anything Championships

I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.

Dennis Quaid

Character Myself Actor Way Always

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

Christopher Morley

Life Man Book New Life You New

The secret to having an epically beloved bakery is consistency.

Christina Tosi

Consistency Secret Bakery Beloved

I think comedy and satire are the strongest ways to deal with very serious themes and very painful themes.

Colman Domingo

Think Comedy Serious Satire Painful

We don't see ourselves as just a place where we come to worship but as a beacon and a bearer of the culture and a bearer of what makes us a people. But I like to say that this is not necessarily unique to us. It is really what America is all about.

Clementa C. Pinckney

Culture People America Unique Place