Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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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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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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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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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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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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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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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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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