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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More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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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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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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the 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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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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