If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
NOAM CHOMSKYMarkets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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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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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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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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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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