You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt’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.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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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.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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