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.
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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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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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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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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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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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