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State Quotes by Michael Parenti
- Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with its protection must…
- A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist governments and undermine…
- My point is that it's incorrect to say that the Iraq policy isn't working. It is working. It is doing what they want. They have…
- To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends…
- A tiny portion of the population controls the lions share of the wealth and most of the command positions of state, manufacturing, banking, investment, publishing,…
- I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists.
More State Quotes
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of… — Roger Nash Baldwin
- With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting… — Bill Gates
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments. — Michelle Bachelet
- I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the… — Michele Bachmann