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.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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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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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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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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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 process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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