Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
NOAM CHOMSKYDeath and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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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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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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 childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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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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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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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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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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