Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
NOAM CHOMSKYWhen 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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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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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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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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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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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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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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