Quote by Noam Chomsky
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers songs and so forth.

Real popular culture is folk art – coalminers songs and so forth. – Noam Chomsky

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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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If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you dont 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. – Noam Chomsky

Category:
Government
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. – Noam Chomsky

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Propaganda
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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men. – Simone de Beauvoir

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Art

Ive always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. – Thomas Hardy

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Art

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. – Morihei Ueshiba

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Art

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Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. – Laurens van der Post

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. – Francis Bacon

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