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.
NOAM CHOMSKYAny dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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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 European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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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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.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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