When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
NOAM CHOMSKYNow that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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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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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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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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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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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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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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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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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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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