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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThat’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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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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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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