Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe 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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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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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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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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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 principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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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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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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