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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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Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think…
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Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as…
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I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms...I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I…
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War has taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all…
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The reason any conservative's failing is always major news is that it allows liberals to engage in their very favorite taunt: Hypocrisy!…
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One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Weasels--and stoats--and foxes--and so on. They're all right in a way--I'm very good friends with them--pass the time of day when we…
— Kenneth Grahame
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Democrats—lily-livered, weasel-assed collaborators.
— Michael Parenti
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The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a…
— William Butler Yeats
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I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago…
— Ted Nugent
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One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of…
— Justin Cronin
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We dwell amid pinheaded weasels who know only timid, the generic and the abacus.
— Danny Baker
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