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.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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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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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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