For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.
– Noam Chomsky
Related Quotes:
- Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off. – Terry Pratchett
- Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, -œWhat kind of peace? – Noam Chomsky
- If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all. – Noam Chomsky
- This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars-”they would think the country has gone insane. – Noam Chomsky
- People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction. – Noam Chomsky
- The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion. – Noam Chomsky
- It is useful to remember that no matter where we turn, there is rarely any shortage of elevated ideals to accompany the resort to violence. – Noam Chomsky
- Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera ‘Upfront’ interview] – Noam Chomsky
- Willingness to be puzzled is a valuable trait to cultivate, from childhood to advanced inquiry. – Noam Chomsky
- The principle of universality is not a ‘theory’. Just moral truism. – Noam Chomsky
- If it’s wrong when they do it, it’s wrong when we do it. – Noam Chomsky
- …the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon. – Noam Chomsky
- It’s not radical Islam that worries the US — it’s independence – Noam Chomsky
- Another problem with the official definitions of terror is that it follows from them that the US is a leading terrorist state. – Noam Chomsky
- See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence. – Noam Chomsky
- Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. – Noam Chomsky
- The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy. – Noam Chomsky
- Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it. – Noam Chomsky
- There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined. – Albert Camus
- The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes. – Larry McMurtry
- There was also the fact that sometimes vampires committed crimes worse than murder. They commited crimes against fashion. – Cassandra Clare
- The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done. – Lon Bloy
- The greatest sin you could commit is immortality, because it means that you’ll eventually commit all else. – Abdullah Ali
- The greatest sin you could commit is immortality, because it means that you’ll eventually commit all else. – Abdullah Ali
- Love will commit, or love will commit suicide. – Anthony Liccione
- Humility is more powerful than egoistic pride. Water is more powerful than the strongest cliff and Love is more powerful than might. – Radhe Maa
- The Kremlin has made a habit of accusing others of crimes of which it has been accused of itself [228] – Marcel H Van Herpen
- How can I blame others, when I cannot stop myself committing crimes? – MF Moonzajer
- Love makes you strong when others are weak, brave when others are scared, hopeful when others are despairing and cheerful when others are sad. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Learn more than others. Work more than others. Succeed more than others. Give more than others. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Think twice as much as others.Study twice as much as others.Work twice as much as others.Give twice as much as others. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Dream what others do not.Imagine what others have not.Do what others will not.Achieve what others could not. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Be smarter than others imagined.Be braver than others anticipated.Be stronger than others calculated.Be better than others envisioned. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Smile, even when others do not.Care, even when others will not.Love, even when others could not.Give, even when others cannot. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, ‘Gnome Chomsky,’ Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what? – Walter Kirn
- A therapist who rushes to help forgets to listen. – Noam Shpancer
- Let go of the mistakes and the sins of others. You’ll have plenty of time to make your own mistakes, the rest of your life to commit your own sins. – C JoyBell C
- Human on human crimes should never be forgotten, or dismissed by time. We are all related here and are linked by spirit. – Gayle Wray
- O Liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name! – Madame Roland
- Crime should not pay, it must be punished. Unfortunately, in Pakistan big crimes do get rewarded. – Imran Khan