In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt’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.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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