Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
NOAM CHOMSKYA war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
-
-
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
NOAM CHOMSKY