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.
NOAM CHOMSKYI mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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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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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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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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