#ow

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#environmental #knowingly #nuclear #nuclear war #our

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#impose #institutions #moral #people #powerful

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

#barriers #coercion #given #history #human

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#almost #any #britain #i #inconceivable

I don't want followers. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#i #want

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#financial #happen #just #liberalization #now

One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#band #brown #cause #club #could

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power. ↗

— Daphne Zuniga

#feel #give #people #power #powerless

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#does #else #i #know #may

I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight. ↗

— Tommy Chong

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