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From Quotes by Michael Parenti
- Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their war policies. Thereby…
- The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business. Profitability rather than…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists.
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- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle