Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
NOAM CHOMSKYEven in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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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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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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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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