Michael Parenti Quotes
Best 15 Democracy for the Few Quotes by Michael Parenti
Democracy for the Few Quotes
“Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.”
“All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they should be replaced by something more responsive, more just, and more democratic. Marx said this, and so did Jefferson. It is a revolutionary doctrine, and very much an American one.”
“Conservatives insist that government should be 'run more like a business'. One might wonder how that could be possible, since government does not market goods and services for the purpose of capital accumulation.”
“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.”
“In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through a process of subsidies, supports, and deficit spending and an increasingly inequitable tax system.”
“It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.”
“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.”
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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.”
“The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution.”
“The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.”
“The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.”
“The trick is to steal big.”
“The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order.”
“There is a century-old saying: The dollar votes more times than the man.
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“When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.”
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“When you put loving thoughts and behavior into the world, you plant seeds of self-respect. When you put unloving thoughts and behavior into the world, you destroy seeds of self-respect.”
