Avram Noam Chomsky Quotes

I was mildly shocked they moved as quickly as they did. Like Tyrone, I think there are fine people at Notre Dame. But the situation got away from them, and the powers that be, who were in the background, saw winning as the most important thing, and that carried the day.

He`s given us the edge of a working environment second to none.

Notre Dame is in his rearview mirror. We don`t even talk about it. What we have talked about is the excitement of being at Washington.

It`s in everybody`s minds, ... We`re lucky to be here. Everybody knows we`re lucky. But it`s still important to celebrate.

As Norm Smith says: `you`ll win the game by controlling the midfield` and that`s what our boys did today. Our biggest emphasis was putting our body on the line and controlling the ball across the centre Ð that`s how we won.

It`s like watching an unbelievable movie or novel unfold.

They all thought when we joined the league (from the Western District Junior Football League) that we were under done but we proved them wrong today. We`ve used this as our biggest challenge this season.

They just need to chill out.

I think it`s a phenomenal match.

Everyone`s out to have a good time, ... And so are we.

I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

Whether a person feels positive or not is kind of a comment on their personality and of no great interest. You can find positive signs or you can find negative signs. How you evaluate them depends on something that happened in your life recently or something like that. There`s no objective way to do it. The important thing is you try to commit yourself to making the positive signs more real. Suppose you felt that there`s 99 percent of a probability that human civilization is going to be destroyed in the next hundred years, but one percent chance it won`t be, and that one percent offers some opportunities to do something. Well, you commit yourself to that one percent.

"ase by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs.

We shouldn`t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

The principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at home. Mothers with dependent children can be sternly lectured on the need for self-reliance, but not dependent executives and investors, please. For them, the welfare state must flourish.