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World Quotes by Michael Parenti
- The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda…
- Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World peoples, control their…
- 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…
- Just as the power of the feudal aristocracy had to be broken in order for capitalism to emerge fully, so must imperialism and capitalism in…
- 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…
- Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.
- People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.
- Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe…
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- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani