"Our fear that communism might someday take over……" — Michael Parenti
"Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has."
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48 Quotes by Michael Parenti
Michael Parenti has 48 quotes on this site.
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The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is…
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The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that…
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The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive…
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Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support…
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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…
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No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of…
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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…
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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…
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Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of…
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Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is…
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A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress…
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More Anti Quotes
This quote is filed under Anti Quotes,
one of 1,021 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and…
— Paul Auster
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Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and…
— Margaret Atwood
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I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!
— Lauren Bacall
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I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find…
— Michele Bachmann
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Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
— Daniel Barenboim
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My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel,…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.
— Theodor Adorno
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Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.
— Conrad Black
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Everyone in comedy thinks if you go to the U.S. you become a global star but, unfortunately, I've always been…
— Jo Brand
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.
— Bill Bryson
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Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.
— Sandra Bullock
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