While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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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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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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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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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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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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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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