Quote by Noam Chomsky
If we dont believe in freedom of expression for people we despise,

If we dont believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we dont believe in it at all. – Noam Chomsky

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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didnt betray it Id be ashamed of myself. – Noam Chomsky

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power
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The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email! – Noam Chomsky

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communication
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We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there wont be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others. – Noam Chomsky

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War
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Freedom
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To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. – Rowan Atkinson

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Freedom

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society. – John Ralston Saul

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Freedom

We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping. – L. Neil Smith

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Freedom

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation. – Mikhail Bakunin

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Freedom

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What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. – John Keats

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He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith. – Abu Bakr

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Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports. – Katarina Witt

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Sports

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. – Thomas Hobbes

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