Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
NOAM CHOMSKYA 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.
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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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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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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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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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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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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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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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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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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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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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