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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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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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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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We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but…
— Mark Twain
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These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with…
— Stephen Crane
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A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and…
— A. A. Gill
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As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their…
— Duke of Wellington
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Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.
— F. E. Adcock
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All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth…
— Osama bin Laden
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War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.
— Amy Goodman
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Athena came to stand by her side. She reached out and ran a light touch over the read wrap. 'Nice dress." Grace…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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