It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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