August 2011
9 posts
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when...”
– Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World, page 25 (via Reddit)
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“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe...”
– Noam Chomsky (via rationaloptimist)
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May 2010
3 posts
Nerve - ep2 →
March 2010
4 posts
“California, it might be the richest place in the world, but it is destroying the...”
– - Noam Chomsky on California’s increasing tuition costs via Princeton University, March 8 2010 (via joylunch)
February 2010
8 posts
“It has to do with being able to look yourself in the eye every morning.”
– Noam Chomsky, when asked why he risked an illustrious academic career to participate in demonstrations against the Vietnam War (via youcancallmesusan)
“Property rights are not like other rights […] If I have the right to free...”
– Noam Chomsky (via loveinentropy)
"The war against working people should be... →
Look at the first full year of the crisis when workers lost an average of 25 percent off their 401k. During the same time period, the wealth of the 400 richest Americans increased by $30 billion, bringing their total combined wealth to $1.57 trillion, which is more than the combined net worth of 50% of the US population. Just to make this point clear, 400 people have more wealth than 155...
Excision - No Escape (Datsik Remix)
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“With a little industry and application, anyone who is willing to extricate...”
– Noam Chomsky
The Chomsky-Foucault Debate on Human Nature, 1971
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January 2010
9 posts
“A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via isotoldyouso)
“It is quite possible – overwhelmingly probably, one might guess – that we will...”
– Noam Chomsky (via ellje)
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BE CAREFUL. READ AND PLEASE PASS ON TO AS MANY OTHERS JUST LIKE I HAVE DONE. REGARDS.—IF U MUST ATTEND A PARTY PLEASE BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL Please inform all your Female Friends!!! A woman at a bar on a Saturday night was taken by 5 men, who, according to d hospital & police reports, gang raped her before dumping her. Unable to remember the events of the evening,...
[CHESS] The Assassin →
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Beautiful.
Black to mate in 4.
Clothes Discarded by H&M in Manhattan Are First... →
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This is common practice for large retailers. When I was a (poor) child one of my early defining memories is of my mother attempting to retrieve a perfectly good discarded Big Wheel knock-off toy from a dumpster behind a large department store for her boys to play with, and being physically threatened, demeaned and chased off by an irate store...
robjwells:
Eliminating social programs has goals that go well beyond concentration of wealth and power. Social Security, public schools, and other such deviations from the “right way” that US military power is to impose on the world, as frankly declared, are based on evil doctrines, among them the pernicious belief that we should care, as a community, whether the disabled widow on the other...
“Dismantling of big government” sounds like a nice phrase. What does it mean?...”
– Noam Chomsky in reply to a Ron Paul supporter
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December 2009
54 posts
“Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way:...”
– Noam Chomsky (via fuckyeahradicalquotes)
“A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and...”
– Mikhail Bakunin (via adamquinn) (via fuckyeahradicalquotes)
George Carlin on Indians →
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“Now the Indians. I call them Indians because that’s what they are. They’re Indians. There’s nothing wrong with the word Indian. First of all, it’s important to know that the word Indian does not derive from Columbus mistakenly believing he had reached ‘India.’ India was not even called by that name in 1492; it was known as Hindustan.”
“More likely, the word Indian comes...
Chaka Khan - Tell Me Something Good
Happy Birthday to Noam Chomsky!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky
Professor Chomsky, you’ve been a profound impact on my life. Thank you.
“If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.”
– Noam Chomsky (via)
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“I mentioned that I was in Asia on this trip thinking about the economy, when I...”
– Barack Obama on press coverage. It’s shit like this that makes me want to at the same time be a journalist and get as far away from journalism as possible. (via)
