"The US government is usually on the wrong……" — Michael Parenti
"The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class interests upon which the [US] policy is fixed."
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48 Quotes by Michael Parenti
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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 Class Quotes
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the…
— Aristotle
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Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out…
— Hank Azaria
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I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
— Andrea Arnold
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
— Saint Augustine
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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class…
— Alfred Austin
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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm…
— Diane Ackerman
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose…
— Peter Ackroyd
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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