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"I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying."
"Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'."
"Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much."
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
"Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not."
"I see some some of these other guys, and they're wearing the hats and the jackets and saying the words and they're relating and they're picking. But there's something missing."
"Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them."
Explore more quotes by Noam Chomsky
"If you're teaching, say, physics, there's no point in persuading a student that you're right. You want to encourage them to find out what the truth is, which is probably that you're wrong."
"If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health."
"There is oppression that shouldn't exist. There is a struggle for freedom all the time. There are very serious dangers: the species may be heading toward extinction. I can't see how anybody can fail to have an interest in trying to help people become more engaged in thinking about these problems and doing something about them."
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum-even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."
"Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society."
"Willingness to be puzzled is a valuable trait to cultivate, from childhood to advanced inquiry."
"The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - "indoctrination," we might say - exercised through the mass media."
"To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public."
"Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat."
"If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged."
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