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.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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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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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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