« All Your Leaders Quotes · Michael Parenti's Page

Your Leaders Quotes by Michael Parenti

1 Your Leaders quote by Michael Parenti

To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly represents. Such opposition…

More Quotes by Michael Parenti

Michael Parenti has 48 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of…
The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate…
The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving…
Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their…
The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed…
No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions,…
The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business.…
Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.
In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are…
Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World…
Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with…
A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist…

See all 48 quotes by Michael Parenti »

More Your Leaders Quotes

Popular Your Leaders quotes from across the collection:

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.… — Phil Jackson
Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends. — Michael Ventura
Change your leaders, not your light bulbs. — Thomas Friedman
To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly… — Michael Parenti
The ideas of individual supremacy and the right of free expression, when carried to excess, have not worked. They have made it… — Lee Kuan Yew
As you set off into the world, don't be afraid to question your leaders. But don't ask too many questions at one… — Will Ferrell
Some missionaries are giants in the Spirit and pygmies in skills in the Spirit. Work hard to develop a balance. Your leaders,… — Richard G. Scott
...it is important to understand, not intellectually but actually in your daily life, how you have built images about your wife, your… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
When things are not going right, where are the leaders to pull this team together? That leadership sometimes, you just can’t find… — Marshall Faulk
Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give… — Terry Goodkind
Do what Jesus says,... what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to… — Bernard of Clairvaux
You should have disagreements with your leaders and your colleagues, but if it becomes immediately a question of questioning people's motives, and… — William J. Clinton

See all Your Leaders Quotes »

Browse Michael Parenti Quotes by Category