Michael Parenti

Democrats—lily-livered, weasel-assed collaborators.

— Michael Parenti

One mechanism of repression is the grand jury.

— Michael Parenti

The trick is to steal big.

— Michael Parenti

Apathy's a problem but who cares?

— Michael Parenti

When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

— Michael Parenti

The dirty truth is that many people find fascism to be not particularly horrible.

— Michael Parenti

People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.

— Michael Parenti

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

— Michael Parenti

The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution.

— Michael Parenti

Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.

— Michael Parenti

There is a century-old saying, "The dollar votes more times than the man."

— Michael Parenti

Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.

— Michael Parenti

Russia became a juicy chunk of the Third World, with immense reserves of cheap labor, a vast treasure of natural resources, and…

— Michael Parenti

The last four secretaries of defense have pointed out that defense spending creates jobs. So do pornography, prostitution, and narcotics.

— Michael Parenti

Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.

— Michael Parenti

I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the…

— Michael Parenti

Union busting has become a major industry with more than a thousand consulting firms teaching companies how to prevent workers from organizing…

— Michael Parenti

“As demonstrated in Russia and numerous other countries, when faced with a choice between democracy without capitalism or capitalism without democracy, Western…

— Michael Parenti

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you…

— Michael Parenti

Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.

— Michael Parenti

Conservatives are fond of telling us what a wonderful, happy, prosperous nation this is. The only thing that matches their love of…

— Michael Parenti

“The diseconomies of capitalism are treated as the public's responsibility. Corporate America skims the cream and leaves the bill for us to…

— Michael Parenti

Ecology's implications for capitalism are too momentous for the capitalist to contemplate. The plutocrats are more wedded to their wealth than to…

— Michael Parenti

[The ruling elites] know who their enemies are, and their enemies are the people, the people at home and the people abroad.…

— Michael Parenti

The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead…

— Michael Parenti

For the last fifty years we've been supporting right-wing governments, and that is a puzzlement to me...I don't understand what there is…

— Michael Parenti

To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security…

— Michael Parenti

If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what…

— Michael Parenti

If Big Brother (of Orwell's 1984) comes to America, he will not be a fearsome, foreboding figure with a heart-chilling, omnipresent glare…

— Michael Parenti

My point is that it's incorrect to say that the Iraq policy isn't working. It is working. It is doing what they…

— Michael Parenti

To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly…

— Michael Parenti

Between 1831 and 1891, US armed forces - usually the Marines - invaded Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Panama, Colombia,…

— Michael Parenti

With each newly minted crisis, US leaders roll out the same time-tested scenario. They start demonizing a foreign leader ... charging them…

— Michael Parenti

Global warming is already acting upon us with an accelerated feedback and compounded effect that may be irreversible! We do not have…

— Michael Parenti

If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified…

— Michael Parenti

With unfailing consistency, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of…

— Michael Parenti

The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.

— Michael Parenti

You don't know you're wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day

— Michael Parenti

“You dont know your wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day.”

— Michael Parenti

I have never seen John Kerry give anything but an engineered response.

— Michael Parenti