All Michael Parenti Quotes
- The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country. Accept
- My point is that it's incorrect to say that the Iraq policy isn't working. It is working. It is doing what they want. They have… Adjuncts
- Conservatives are fond of telling us what a wonderful, happy, prosperous nation this is. The only thing that matches their love of country is the… Conservatives
- The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty. Cause
- Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can… All
- Union busting has become a major industry with more than a thousand consulting firms teaching companies how to prevent workers from organizing and how to… Busting
- Democrats—lily-livered, weasel-assed collaborators. Assed
- To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends… Active
- You don't know you're wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day All
- The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property… Accumulation
- It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support. Become Conservative
- The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined… Civil
- To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly represents. Such opposition… All
- Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the… Accountability
- A tiny portion of the population controls the lions share of the wealth and most of the command positions of state, manufacturing, banking, investment, publishing,… Banking
- Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has. Anti
- The dirty truth is that many people find fascism to be not particularly horrible. Dirty
- If Big Brother (of Orwell's 1984) comes to America, he will not be a fearsome, foreboding figure with a heart-chilling, omnipresent glare as in 1984.… Able
- Editors and reporters are not as free and independent to invite a variety of opinions as they might think. They are free to say what… Acceptable
- With unfailing consistency, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and… Ahead