"People who think they're free in this world……" — Michael Parenti
"People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet."
—
Michael Parenti
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
48 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…
-
The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that…
-
The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive…
-
Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support…
-
The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but…
-
No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of…
-
The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out…
-
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…
-
Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of…
-
Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is…
-
A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress…
See all 48 quotes by Michael Parenti »
More End Quotes
This quote is filed under End Quotes,
one of 16,664 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came…
— Hannah Arendt
-
On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is…
— Hank Aaron
-
I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
— J. J. Abrams
-
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
— Aristotle
-
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
-
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
— Aristotle
-
If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
-
I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
— Dido Armstrong
-
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
— Neil Armstrong
-
I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I…
— Darren Aronofsky
-
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
— Chinua Achebe
See all 16,664 End Quotes »