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 CHOMSKYRomania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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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 internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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