All Michael Parenti Quotes
- The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth. Aggression
- The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with… Armed
- You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you… Feel
- People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet. End
- Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe… All
- If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is… Accept
- I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists. Argue
- I have never seen John Kerry give anything but an engineered response. Engineered