Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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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 truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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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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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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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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