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Mélanie Berliet

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6,037 quotes curated by Mélanie Berliet:

“Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.”
— Emma Bombeck, Ordinary Guy - Extraordinary Marriage
Tagged: Marriage, Romantic Gurantees
“Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.”
— Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky "How To Stop Terrorism?"
Tagged: Terrorism
““You’ve got to keep them pretty scared, because unless they’re properly scared and frightened of all kinds of devils that are going to destroy them from outside or inside or somewhere, they may start to think, which is very dangerous, because they’re not competent to think. Therefore it’s important to distract them and marginalize them.””
— Noam Chomsky, Media Control, Second Edition: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (Open Media Series)
Tagged: Media Fear, Media Manipulation, Fear, Marginalization Tactics
“Don’t ridicule, organize.”
— Noam Chomsky, Hopes And Prospects (Amnesty International Lecture)
Tagged: Social Change
“Only an aroused public can end this folly before it ends us.”
— Noam Chomsky, Hopes And Prospects (Amnesty International Lecture)
Tagged: Social Change, Outrage Culture
“The world is too complex for history to repeat, but there are nevertheless lessons to keep in mind. There is no shortage of tasks for those who choose the vocation of critical intellectuals, whatever their station in life. They can seek to sweep away the mists of carefully contrived illusion and reveal the stark reality. They can become directly engaged in popular struggles, helping to organize the countless Joe Stacks who are destroying themselves, and maybe the world, and to join them in leading the way the way to a better future.”
— Noam Chomsky, The Radical Intellectual
Tagged: Intellectuals
“ I am just old enough to remember those chilling and ominous days of Germany’s descent from decency to Nazi barbarism, to borrow the words of the distinguished scholar of German history Fritz Stern. He tells us that he has the future of the United States in mind when he reviews ‘a historic process in which resentment against a disenchanted secular world found deliverance in the ecstatic escape of unreason.’”
— Noam Chomsky, The Radical Intellectual
Tagged: The Seduction of Unreason, Fitz Stern, Germany, Unreason
“One of the striking examples was the invasion of Iraq. U.S. and British intelligence agencies informed their governments that the invasion of Iraq was likely to lead to an increase in terrorism. They didn’t care. In fact, it did. Terrorism increased by a factor of seven the first year after the Iraqi invasion, according to government statistics. Right now the government is defending the massive surveillance operation. That’s on the front pages. The defense is on grounds that we have to do it to apprehend terrorists.”
— Noam Chomsky, A Roadmap to a Just World — People Reanimating Democracy
Tagged: Iraq, Terrorism
“Interviewer: You have been very critical of the press. What would you like the press to do?

Noam Chomsky: It’s very simple. I’d like the press to tell the truth about important things.”
— Noam Chomsky, A Roadmap to a Just World — People Reanimating Democracy
Tagged: Press, Media
“Unless the powerful are capable of learning to respect the dignity of their victims, impassable barriers will remain, and the world will be doomed to violence, cruelty, and bitter suffering.”
— Noam Chomsky, Violence and Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East
Tagged: Violence, Powerful, Cruelty, Sad World, Middle East