"Debt is a social and ideological construct, not……" — Noam Chomsky
"Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact."
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588 Quotes by Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky has 588 quotes on this site.
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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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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all…
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Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel…
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In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans,…
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound…
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued -…
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More Construct Quotes
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People…
— Paul Auster
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
— Saint Augustine
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
— John Berger
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I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the…
— Bill Bryson
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I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.
— John Burns
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Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don't somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you…
— Luigi Pirandello
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The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To…
— Pete Wilson
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Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price…
— Epictetus
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Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest,…
— Marcello Malpighi
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Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of…
— Cesar Chavez
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When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to…
— Ronald Reagan
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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model…
— John von Neumann
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