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Michael Parenti has 48 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of…
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The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate…
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The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving…
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Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their…
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The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed…
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No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions,…
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The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business.…
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Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.
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In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are…
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Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World…
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Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with…
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A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist…
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Aggressors cannot wage total war without introducing Socialism.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs,…
— David Ben-Gurion
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As a result of continuous work with these highly toxic substances, our minds were so numbed that we no longer had any…
— Otto Hahn
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In the end, the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is…
— Fritjof Capra
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Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into…
— Christine de Pizan
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People of the world, unite and defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs!
— Mao Zedong
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A man's excellence is like that of water; It benefits all things without striving; It takes to the low places shunned by…
— Laozi
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A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the "universal judgment that…
— Don Kates
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For everybody has a natural right to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance…
— Lysander Spooner
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The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.
— Michael Parenti
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When we say that the Arabs are the aggressors and we defend ourselves---- that is only half the truth. As regards our…
— David
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In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities…
— Thomas Jefferson
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