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“Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.”
― Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
― Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
“It is necessary to be strong in the face of death, because death is intrinsic to life. It is for this reason that I tell my students: aim to be the person at your father’s funeral that everyone, in their grief and misery, can rely on. There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“Take language, one of the few distinctive human capacities about which much is known. We have very strong reasons to believe that all possible human languages are very similar; a Martian scientist observing humans might conclude that there is just a single language, with minor variants. The reason is that the particular aspect of human nature that underlies the growth of language allows very restricted options. Is this limiting? Of course. Is it liberating? Also of course. It is these very restrictions that make it possible for a rich and intricate system of expression of thought to develop in similar ways on the basis of very rudimentary, scattered, and varied experience.”
― Chomsky On Anarchism
― Chomsky On Anarchism
“Human beings and their social orders are intrinsically imperfectible and fortunately so. In a constantly changing world, we need the flexibility that only imperfection provides.”
― The Social Conquest of Earth
― The Social Conquest of Earth
“You were rushing to lick honey off a razor’s edge.”
― Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection
― Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection
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