Europe Quotes — Page 34

Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“The desire for hope and change is easily understandable. In many ways it's even more dramatic in Europe.”

Way Desire Europe

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“The Second World War had really devastating effects for much of Europe. It really didn't take them very long to reconstruct state capitalist democracies because it was in people's heads. There were other parts of the world that were pretty much devastated and they couldn't do it; they didn't have the conceptions in their mind. A lot of it is human consciousness.”

Long War Europe

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“In Europe there's kind of a reaction to the European Union, kind of a move towards some kind of regionalization. It's more advanced in some regions than others, like in Spain for example. Catelan was repressed under Franco. People spoke it, but not publicly. It's now the language of Catelonia. The Basque language is being revived, not just the language but the culture, the folk music and everything else. So you're getting more diverse societies, and it's happening in Britain as well.”

Moving Europe Diverse Society

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“CEOs pretty much pick the boards that give them salaries and bonuses. That's one of the reasons why the CEO-to-payment [ratio] has so sharply escalated in this country in contrast to Europe. (They're similar societies and it's bad enough there, but here we're in the stratosphere. ] There's no particular reason for it.”

Giving Country Europe

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“Look, the United States doesn't have political parties. In other countries, take say Europe, you can be an active member of the political party. Here, the only thing in a political party is gearing to elections, not the other things you do. So it's basically, a way of making people passive, submissive objects.”

Country Party Europe

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“The racism in Europe takes the form of anti-immigrant extremism - which is bad enough here - I think it's hard to measure, but my guess is that it's probably worse there.”

Thinking Europe Racism

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“The fact of the matter is that the U.S. is run by an unusually class-conscious, dedicated business class that has a very violent labor history, much worse than in Europe.”

Running Class Europe

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“U.S. has no feudal background, so institutions that remained in place in Europe did not remain in place here.”

Europe Institutions Backgrounds

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they're becoming more diverse, like in Europe.”

Facts Doubt Europe

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Leon Trotsky

Revolutionary, Politician

“The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of Europe, as the foundation of the United States of the World.”

Powerful Europe United States

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Henry Louis Gates

Scholar, Historian

“The second thing that happened is, DNA analysis is much more sophisticated. All you have to do now is spit in a test tube and you find out all kind of things in six weeks - where they are from in Africa or Europe. You can prove or disprove the fundamental African-American myth that you descended from a Cherokee great, great grandmother.”

Europe Grandmother Dna

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“The U.S. is different from Europe and other industrial countries.”

Country Different Europe

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