Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
NOAM CHOMSKYFrance had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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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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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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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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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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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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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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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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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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