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Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#circumstances #concentration #democracy #executive #executive power

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#how #interests #me #people #perceive

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#attempt #believe #consequences #detest #even

The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#globalisation #interests #most #movement #people

You are to make your own way prosperous...Even God cannot do it for you; you will have to do it yourself by doing the right things; taking right decisions, talking right, thinking right, being at the right place with the right-kind of people and by reading the right materials. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#dreams #fulfilling-purpose #inspiration #risk-it-be-different #success-self-improvement

Governments don't control people like they used to. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#governments #like #people #used

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#characteristics #does #every #human #human nature

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#cultural #deficit #even #history #human

You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him. ↗

— Rae Dawn Chong

#even #him #man #off #seduce

I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#boy #could #discovered #either #geeky