A Quote by Noam Chomsky

The U.S. is, to a very unusual extent, a business-run society.

Noam Chomsky

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Noam Chomsky
American - Activist
Born: December 7, 1928

The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning.

Noam Chomsky

The concept of the "information society" is both vague and all-embracing. Different participants meant different things by it. In practice, though, World Summit on the Information Society only dealt with a small number of issues: ICTs and human rights (to some extent), ICTs and development (to some extent), infrastructure finance and Internet governance. Very large aspects of what might have been included in the "information society" were not really discussed.

David Souter

It not only is a complete undermining of the principles of family and marriage and the hope of future generations, but it completely begins to see our society break down to the extent that that foundational unit of the family that is the hope of survival of this country is diminished to the extent that it literally is a threat to the nation's survival in the long run.

Trent Franks

In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all the time. They're instinctive Marxists.

Noam Chomsky

Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.

Robert Kennedy

The interesting thing about Laika is that it's very much an island of misfit toys. It's unusual people with strange talents and very unusual passions who have somehow found each other.

Travis Knight

children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society needs them - to perpetuate itself. Unfortunately, however, children are of no use to a business society until they have almost reached physical maturity.

Margaret Halsey

The US is a business-run huckster society, and its primary value is deceit.

Noam Chomsky

You might indeed be able to provide this money that people need to start a business, but can they run a business? This new consolidated agency [National Empowerment Fund] focuses on that matter of preparing people so that they can run business successfully.

Thabo Mbeki

Woodstock was a business. A very poorly run business.

Shawn Amos

It is very unusual for a country to ask guys who are not politicians to come and run the country.

Mario Monti

When you enter a casino, remember that you are entering a place of business run by very shrewd business people who understand human emotions.

Henry Tamburin

I've run a very successful business, and I think I can also run a very successful team.

Aliko Dangote

If [Respulicans] can't get rid of [Obamacare], they're going to have to tell their base, we've been lying to you for the last five years. So they're willing to go to almost any extent to do that. That's unusual, in fact I think it's unique in the history of modern parliamentary systems. And it's very dangerous for the country and for the world.

Noam Chomsky

The 'Hellraiser' situation was pretty darn wonderful and very unusual. Nor did I understand how radically unusual the thesis of 'Nightbreed' was.