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 CHOMSKYIt is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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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 probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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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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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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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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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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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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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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