Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
NOAM CHOMSKYEven the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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