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| 38a6c6a | One should attend carefully to the fear and desperation of the powerful. They understand very well the potential reach of the "ultimate weapon," and only hope that those who seek a more free and just world will not gain the same understanding and put it effectively to use." | economics neoliberalism | Noam Chomsky | |
| f15c140 | The public must be reduced to passivity in the political realm, but for submissiveness to become a reliable trait, it must be entrenched in the realm of belief as well. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| 248b433 | That comes to about one hundred million people in India alone from 1947 to 1980. But we don't call that a crime of democratic capitalism. If we were to carry out that calculation throughout the world... I wont even talk about it. But Sen is correct; they're not intended, just like the Chinese famine wasn't intended. But they are ideological and institutional crimes, and capitalist democracy and its advocates are responsible for them, in wha.. | capitalist-democracy chinese-famine communist-china crimes-against-humanity noam-chomsky | Noam Chomsky | |
| 1c952c3 | fy l`shrynt w 'wy'l lthlthynt 'wDH hrwlj lzwyl mw'ss `lm ltSlt w 'Hd mnZry l`lwm lsysy@ lmrmwqyn , 'nh l yjb 'n nstslm lldwjmt ldymwqrTy@ ,lty tqwl b'n lrjl qdrwn `l~ lHkm `l~ mSlHhm , fhm lysw kdhlk ! nHn kthr lns qdr@ `l~ tHdyd w lHkm `l~ lmSlH l`m@ , w bltly nTlq mn tlk lq`d@ l'khlqy@ lbsyT@ l bd w 'n nt'kd mn 'nh ln ttH lhm lfrS@ lltSrf bn `l~ sw 'Hkmhm fym ysm~ lywm bldwl@ lshmwly@ 'w ldwl@ l`skry@ hw 'mr Gyr mstHyl , fqT `lyk 'n tmsk.. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| 1a82f18 | The rest of the population ought to be deprived of any form of organization, because organization just causes trouble. People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| 98764b0 | there has been a deepening recognition among elites in the West that as you begin to lose the power to control people by force, you have to start to control what they think. And in the United States, that recognition has reached its apogee. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| b6327b8 | And the spectators must not be allowed to see too much. President Obama has set new standards in safeguarding this principle. He has, in fact, punished more whistle-blowers than all previous presidents combined, a real achievement for an administration that came to office promising transparency. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| 9092b44 | That is neoliberal democracy in a nutshell: trivial debate over minor issues by parties that basically pursue the same pro-business policies regardless of formal differences and campaign debate. Democracy is permissible as long as the control of business is off-limits to popular deliberation or change; i.e. so long as it isn't democracy. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| 9314ce4 | Bombing of urban areas was not considered a war crime at Nuremberg; reason is, the West did more of it than the Germans. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| 5061832 | Compare mathematics and the political sciences--it's quite striking. In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not with your certification. But in order to speak about social reality, you must have the proper credentials, particularly if you depart from the accepted framework of thinking. Generally speaking, it seems fair to say that the richer the intellectual substance of a field, the less there is a concern for .. | Noam Chomsky | ||
| eaacdef | A propaganda model has a certain initial plausibility on guided free-market assumptions that are not particularly controversial. In essence, the private media are major corporations selling a product (readers and audiences) to other businesses (advertisers). The national media typically target and serve elite opinion, groups that, on the one hand, provide an optimal "profile" for advertising purposes, and, on the other, play a role in decis.. | media propaganda public-relations truism | Noam Chomsky | |
| f86dc7b | An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. | James A. Michener | ||
| b457d50 | To have courage. To have honor. Is very beautiful. | James A. Michener | ||
| a337f03 | It gives a fella relief to tell, but it jus' spreads out his sin. | sin | John Steinbeck | |
| 5185815 | You're jest one person, an' they's a lot of other folks. You git to your proper place. I knowed people built theirself up with sin till they figgered they was big mean shucks in the sight a the Lord. You ain't big enough or mean enough to worry God much. | John Steinbeck | ||
| f013fc7 | He put on a little knapsack and he walked through Indiana and Kentucky and North Carolina and Georgia clear to Florida. He walked among farmers and mountain people, among swamp people and fishermen. And everywhere people asked him why he was walking through the country. Because he loved true things he tried to explain. He said he was nervous and besides he wanted to see the country, smell the ground and look at grass and birds and trees, t.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| ea398bc | That was a time when a man had the right to be burried by his own son an' a son had the right to burry his own father. | John Steinbeck | ||
| c3fbcc7 | Someone's got to do these things,' he said sullenly. 'Or else fate would not ever get nose-thumbed and mankind would still be clinging to the top branches of a tree. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 96dc7ce | You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway. | John Steinbeck | ||
| cdc7616 | In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind--but he must get there first. | politics | John Steinbeck | |
| 562d2b3 | Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 2dbeca7 | I guess she's just nuts,' he said. 'And if she's nuts, a guy's got to do nuts things. You don't think you could say the hell with her? | John Steinbeck | ||
| 07c30b3 | In town in a whorehouse. That's where your money's goin'. Jesus, I seen it happen too many times. I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 865e82d | I seen too many you guys. If you had two bits in the worl', why you'd be in gettin' two shots of corn with it and suckin' the bottom of the glass. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 35594f5 | By whipping himself he protected himself against whipping by someone else. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 7e6a708 | Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 127a909 | Puts a weight on ya. Goin' out lookin' for somepin you know you ain't gonna find. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 959385d | A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim toward reproduction. | endurance organism reproduction strength | John Steinbeck | |
| e0c8e50 | A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 1b93f20 | qlt l'm bhdw: "'shkrk. lqd t`lmt shyy'an Hqyqyan ry'`an, whw 'nk lw wq`t fy wrT@ 'w knt fy Hj@ llms`d@, ftwjh llns lfqr. fhm lwHydwn ldhyn yqdmwn lms`d@, lwHydwn fqT " | John Steinbeck | ||
| a1dfac6 | While the churches, bringing the sweet smell of piety for the soul, came in prancing and farting like brewery horses in bock-beer time, the sister evangelism, with release and joy for the body, crept in. silently and greyly, with its head bowed and its face covered. | humor philosophical | John Steinbeck | |
| 05bcb4e | Pilon complained, "It is not a good story. There are too many meanings and too many lessons in it. Some of those lessons are opposite. There is not a story to take into your head. It proves nothing." "I like it" said Pablo. "I like it because it hasn't any meaning you can see, and still it does seem to mean something, I can't tell what." | John Steinbeck | ||
| 953fc43 | If I could do this book properly it would be one of the really fine books and a truly American book. But I am assailed with my own ignorance and inability. i'll just have to work from a background of these. Honesty. If I can keep an honesty it is all I can expect of my poor brain.... If I can do that it will be all my lack of genius can produce. For no else knows my lack of ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 6d8eb07 | I've lived in a good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. | weather | John Steinbeck | |
| ef235d9 | You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 7074dbf | It was not laziness if he was a rich man. Only the poor were lazy. Just as only the poor were ignorant. A rich man who didn't know anything was spoiled or independent. | John Steinbeck | ||
| e5df316 | The fool supply was controlled... | John Steinbeck | ||
| be45dab | There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. | John Steinbeck | ||
| fc2b16b | Guy knows all about women he don't know nothing about a woman. | John Steinbeck | ||
| ca23975 | I should have known," he whispered. "I am the rain." And yet he looked dully down the mountains of his body where the hills fell to an abyss. He felt the driving rain, and heard it whipping down, pattering on the ground. He saw his hills grow dark with moisture. Then a lancing pain shot through the heart of the world. "I am the land," he said, "and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while." And the storm thickened, and.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 5efc7d7 | They know that ten heads lopped off will destroy them, but we are a free people; we have as many heads as we have people, and in a time of need leaders pop up among us like mushrooms. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 5b0ec15 | in 50 years, did you ever have a vacation, you little, silly, half-pint, smidgin of a wife? | John Steinbeck | ||
| 5e92eb3 | I've given you everything a friend can give, Joe Saul-even contempt, and that's the hardest thing of all. | John Steinbeck | ||
| d1ff0f6 | Parents took honor from a daughter who was a teacher. | John Steinbeck |