A 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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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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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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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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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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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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 money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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