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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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I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at the top to make their contribution,…
— Nick Clegg
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I know firsthand that many employers who comply with other labor standards still hire the undocumented. Many businesses pay the minimum wage…
— Unknown Author
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Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is…
— Paul Krugman
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Low-income people everywhere will be at risk of food insecurity due to loss of assets, absence of alternative livelihood options and lack…
— Jacques Diouf
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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…
— Michael Parenti
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I'm going to insist that we've got decent funding, enough teachers, and computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the…
— Barack Obama
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I would guess that there's adequate low-income housing in the country.
— Dan Quayle
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There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now…
— Mitch Daniels
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The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.
— Jim Clyburn
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They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their children and not going out…
— Ann Richards
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America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter…
— Alphonso Jackson
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