Michael Parenti Short Quotes

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When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

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The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.

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Conservative pundits have a remarkable amount of free speech.

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The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

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There is a century-old saying, "The dollar votes more times than the man."

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The dirty truth is that many people find fascism to be not particularly horrible.

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One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society.

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The media have been tireless in their efforts to suppress the truth about the gangster state.

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Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.

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The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution.

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Conservatives have nothing against incumbency when it is their people who are filling the slots.

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Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.

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The real danger we face is not from terrorism but what is being done under the pretext of fighting it.

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Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

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Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater then the electric use of our entire nation.

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The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order.

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The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.

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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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It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.

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Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the world.

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The last four secretaries of defense have pointed out that defense spending creates jobs. So do pornography, prostitution, and narcotics.

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You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

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It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.

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Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.

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Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

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