Quote by Noam Chomsky
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is

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. – Noam Chomsky

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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way. – Noam Chomsky

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There are two problems for our species survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and were hurtling towards them. Knowingly. – 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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The idea of history in any age, like the idea of property, or of progress, is an unstable compound; it is put together as needed, by historians or by philosophers, out of the irreconcilable opinions of men. – F. Smith Fussner, The Historical Revolution

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No modern idea has affected history more than the passion of nationalism. – Charles R. Poinsatte, Understanding History Through the American Experience

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Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. – Margaret Thatcher

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The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history. – Vladimir Putin

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You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future. – will.i.am

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How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality? – Lou Reed

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Women, cant live with them, cant live without them. – Desiderius Erasmus

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Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized womens rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do. – Ingrid Newkirk

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