“Spectator sports make people more passive, because you're not doing them—you're watching somebody doing them.”

—  Noam Chomsky

"Sports" in How the World Works, p. 168
Quotes 1990s, 1990-1994, Secrets, Lies and Democracy, 1994

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american linguist, philosopher and activist 1928

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