"Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That’s human nature."
― Noam Chomsky
Topic(s):
Imagination
More From Noam Chomsky
- "The ‘anti-globalisation movement’ is the most significant proponent of globalisation – but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power."
- "The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful."
- "In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that’s international terror, and we can go on and on."
More In Imagination
- "What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, ‘Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,’ reducing it to a simple formula."― Doris Lessing
- "The travel writer seeks the world we have lost – the lost valleys of the imagination."― Alexander Graham Bell
- "The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion."― Elizabeth Drew