In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
NOAM CHOMSKYA tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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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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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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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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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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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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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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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