Quote by Noam Chomsky
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I

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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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

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Growth
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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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Freedom
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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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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands societys care. – Camille Paglia

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power

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe. – Phaedrus

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power

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. – Richard Dawkins

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power

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power. – Nikola Tesla

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power

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If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. – Muhammad Ali

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future. – George Macaulay Trevelyan, Clio, A Muse

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When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy. – Gennaro Angiulo

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