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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#betray #i #intellectual #myself #power

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#amazed #long #mars #observer #probably

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#cunning #divorced #justice #knowledge #may

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy. ↗

— Vernon Jordan

#september #stands #terrible #terrible tragedy #tragedy

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#discontent #economic #economic growth #economists #fact

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#expectation #going #increase #invaded #iraq

It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#component #distinguishes #factor #genetic #grammar

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#america #anywhere #guarded #latin #latin america

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#media #opinion #public #public opinion

On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! ↗

— Jules Verne

#between #covered #curtain #earth #extended