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NOAM CHOMSKY If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
AVRAM NOAM CHOMSKY The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history
AVRAM NOAM CHOMSKY The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called signi...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to o...
AVRAM NOAM CHOMSKY The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of...
AVRAM NOAM CHOMSKY The country was founded on the principle that the primary role of government is to protect property ...
AVRAM NOAM CHOMSKY These days, political ideologies are almost genetic. Plus, we are exposed to political messages mean...
JOHN ZOGBY People feel that this is defining an important part of who they are. Making them give it up is a dif...
HUMERA KHAN People who are using it to sell things on Craigslist to holding garage sales - campaigns - the Obama...
JACK DORSEY I don't feel particularly attached to Israel - 'nationalism,' as Noam Chomsky said, '...
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN And, in fact, there is a connection, the people who designed this here program and who implement it ...
JANE MAYER The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed ...
TERRY EAGLETON From anti-semite to self-hating jew, all in one day
NOAM CHOMSKY If you are working to succeed, bear it in mind that many people who aspired to be like you didn’t ...
VIKRANT PARSAI If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.
SARAH CALDWELL Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of De...
HUGO CHAVEZ It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed a...
SALMAN RUSHDIE The two-year auction didn't go well. People are using that as a reason to sell. ... We're in a bear ...
CHARLES REINHARD Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are ...
JULIO CORTáZAR If Nader were to win the Presidency and pull the US out of Iraq the day after, I think it would be h...
CRAIG BRUCE It boggles my mind that the same people who cry 'foul' about rationing an instant later argu...
DONALD BERWICK Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.
TONY SNOW There's no doubt about it in my mind that the announcement was set for this particular time to gener...
LARRY GERSTON I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level an...
ROY ROMER I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level an...
ROY ROMER squats are a form of torture designed by people who don’t need to do squats in the first place
NORA ROBERTS There are as many jobs for younger Americans as there are for other Americans of every age group in ...
MARC RACICOT In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function...
JOHN RAWLS In both cases, he did it with very strong bipartisan backing. But they wrongly and foolishly extrapo...
GARRY SOUTH I'm just an actor. My performance is not more important than your life. Stop watching. We're false i...
GRANT MORRISON I was the only designer who suggested keeping everything instead of gutting it. It had, in fact, bee...
SELWYN ELKIN Our aim is to make it possible for as many people as possible to experience the same sensations as t...
MARC GENE All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. TONI MORRISON We're all prostitutes if you think about it. The whole capitalist system is built on meretriciousnes...
M. THOMAS GAMMARINO We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance, their race, their educatio...
ASHLY LORENZANA Europeans in the region are generally there to improve the living conditions of Palestinians. Those ...
EMMA UDWIN People have been savaged by a predatory economic and political system, and some are turning to Trump...
JILL STEIN You're going to have people who are speculators. Those are people who want to get a license and sell...
DEBI PENDER We do not rule out that Mr. Cohen is serving someone's political order designed to present Kazakhsta...
YERZHAN ASHYKBAYEV Fraudulent political theater designed to protect the corrupt tax code and those who profit from its ...
LEO LINBECK I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flur...
CHRISTINE LAGARDE Bear in mind that you are better than what you are; even an empty pistol can scare hundred people.
VIKRANT PARSAI BDS is not a typical act of political correctness, undertaken by radical academics whose usual prey ...
THOM TILLIS The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more ...
AVRAM NOAM CHOMSKY My quarrel with Chomsky goes back to the Balkan wars of the 1990s, where he more or less openly repr...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Bear in mind, [Route 44] is a state highway, ... And people have to remember that we have to coopera...
DONALD BRIGGS To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Everyone believes in sin, the people who charge their peers with political incorrectness and the peo...
GARRET KEIZER Many of us would like to make progress much quicker, ... But we have to bear in mind there are peopl...
MO MOWLAM What this poll shows is that the election is still wide open, and that political campaigns do have a...
ALEJANDRO HOPE The Senate race, in particular, brings a lot to bear in terms of the campaigns' organization. It's m...
CHRISTIAN ANDERSON When I designed projects in college, he said, let's sell it.
STEVE WOZNIAK I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.
RICH LOWRY We're going to be able to have debates in here, but by the end, when people walk out that door, two ...
JOE MADEIRA Components are important in the evolution of cars, and there is increasing need for electronics.
JOHN ELKANN Very clearly, it is wrong to use government property, government assets for political purposes, ... ...
DAVID MCINTOSH There is probably no such thing as a level playing field in political campaigns.
DEBORAH TANNEN In fact quite generally, commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine markets. We ...
NOAM CHOMSKY There is no political connotation (to the march). This is a demonstration by the people of France wh...
JOSEPH SITRUK Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space...
RANDY QUAID My favorite red carpet jewelry is by Alberto Parada, who designed my Oscar jewelry, as it's mode...
CARLY STEEL We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the p...
BEN CARSON Ford can't sell trucks currently, and GM is not selling as many cars as it would like to. That is a ...
PAUL TAYLOR Election campaigns are allowed for all registered coalitions and political parties within the frame ...
FARID AYAR No, sir, I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen tho...
ROSSER REEVES Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men-of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN Love is no game. People cut their ears off over this stuff. People jump off the Eiffel Tower and sel...
JESS ROTHENBERG Bear in mind that humility is not timidity.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Politics are the same old thing. We elect people, we put them in office, and guess what they do? The...
RICKEY MEDLOCKE Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
SIR WALTER SCOTT The trucks and train cars are easily moved and are designed to evade detection by inspectors, ... In...
COLIN POWELL What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it ...
CALVIN TRILLIN There's no instruction manual for donating to political campaigns.
MIKE CRANE Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments...
PHILIP K. DICK I think people should be authentic and who they are. If that calls people to same-sex attraction and...
CHRIS GIBSON There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind...
MICHAEL A. SINGER I think in upcoming campaigns - local campaigns, even national campaigns - the Web is going to be us...
BRUCE ELDER In Europe, bankruptcy laws are designed to protect creditors. We're a nation founded by debtors, peo...
CARL STEIDTMANN I had the opportunity to go and read to cancer patients in hospitals and saw how something as little...
MANIKA Empirical evidence collected and analyzed by political scientists demonstrates that judicial pension...
DAVID STRAS What I have learned over hundreds of campaigns is if you have lost voters who have supported you in ...
BOB BECKEL Right here in our back yards are the sites of battles and campaigns that are as important in our his...
HOWARD COFFIN I'm getting offered roles that aren't designed for aboriginal people; they're designed f...
BRONSON PELLETIER If a person is consistently true to his words, then it will not be heard by the most people but by a...
ANUJ SOMANY Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Because the people of New Hampshire take their responsibilities as citizens of the Republic seriousl...
JOHN MCCAIN I think it was Alfred Hitchcock who said that 90% of successful movie making is in the casting. The ...
ROB LOWE Political campaigns offer Americans an opportunity to adjust direction, reaffirm values, and recommi...
STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.
FABRICE MUAMBA People can sell you a lifestyle, a representation of who you want to be. People feel they are engage...
GIDEON YAGO The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON The market today is dominated by much younger people who have not experienced a bear market.
GEORGE SOROS Women don't like feminine cars. Women have proven they do like macho cars. The idea 'Let's make it p...
GORDON WANGERS What it means is that the taste of the people who are buying at Barrett-Jackson are more attuned to ...
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NOAM CHOMSKY In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and kil...
NOAM CHOMSKY The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial e...
NOAM CHOMSKY From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies ...
NOAM CHOMSKY There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which say...
NOAM CHOMSKY Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how tha...
NOAM CHOMSKY When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn&#...
NOAM CHOMSKY The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg p...
NOAM CHOMSKY The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the O...
NOAM CHOMSKY If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers ...
NOAM CHOMSKY The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but i...
NOAM CHOMSKY The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-ri...
NOAM CHOMSKY In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in ...
NOAM CHOMSKY When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. ...
NOAM CHOMSKY Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop mea...
NOAM CHOMSKY My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew togethe...
NOAM CHOMSKY Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and re...
NOAM CHOMSKY Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use!
NOAM CHOMSKY I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
NOAM CHOMSKY Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let...
NOAM CHOMSKY Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amou...
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