I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere 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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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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.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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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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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.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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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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