Michael Parenti quotes

Michael Parenti is an American political scientist, historian, and author known for his progressive analyses of politics and culture. His work often critiques corporate power, imperialism, and mainstream media narratives. He has influenced generations of activists and scholars through his books, lectures, and commentary. Here are 69 of his quotes:

Russia became a juicy chunk of the Third World, with immense reserves of cheap labor, a vast treasure of natural resources, and industrial assets to be sold off at giveaway prices. (Michael Parenti)
Union busting has become a major industry with more than a thousand consulting firms teaching companies how to prevent workers from organizing and how to get rid of existing unions. View quote
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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. View quote
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The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes. View quote
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Archbishop Romero of El Salvador was a member of the Salvadoran aristocracy. He could not have risen to the top of the church hierarchy otherwise. But after he began voicing critical remarks about the war and concerned comments about the poor, he was assassinated. View quote
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Conservatives are fond of telling us what a wonderful, happy, prosperous nation this is. The only thing that matches their love of country is the remarkable indifference they show toward the people who live in it. View quote
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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. View quote
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The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined democratic forces. View quote
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To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people. View quote
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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. View quote
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In the end I created a career of my own, concentrating on my writing and lecturing, reaching larger audiences than I would had I ended up with tenure and a full teaching load. It was Virginia Woolf who said that it is terrible to be frozen out of a sacred tradition-but even more terrible to be frozen into it. (Michael Parenti)
To complain about how the media are dominated by liberals, Limbaugh has an hour a day on network television, an hour on cable, and a radio show syndicated by over 600 stations. View quote
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The trick is to steal big. View quote
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The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution. View quote
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Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform. View quote
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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. View quote
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One mechanism of repression is the grand jury. View quote
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The dirty truth is that many people find fascism to be not particularly horrible. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is a century-old saying, "The dollar votes more times than the man." View quote
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The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order. (Michael Parenti)
The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty. View quote
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When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed. View quote
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The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth. View quote
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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. View quote
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Michael Parenti

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Occupation: American Critic
Born: 1933
Quotes count: 69
Wikipedia: Michael Parenti

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