"There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly."
― Noam Chomsky
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Power
More From Noam Chomsky
- "Real popular culture is folk art – coalminers’ songs and so forth."
- "In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society."
- "If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works."
More In Power
- "The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing."― Herodotus
- "There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world."― J. William Fulbright
- "People who are powerless make an open theater of violence."― Don DeLillo