Frases de Michael Parenti

Michael John Parenti é um cientista e economista político, historiador e crítico cultural estado-unidense, que escreve sobre temas populares e académicos. Deu aulas em universidades internacionais e dos Estados Unidos, e tem dado palestras como convidado em polos universitários e a comunidades públicas. Wikipedia  

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Michael Parenti: Frases em inglês

“Our fear that Communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti-communism already has.”

The Anti-Communist Impulse http://books.google.com/books?id=i6V2AAAAMAAJ&q=%22Our+fear+that+Communism+might+someday+take+over+most+of+the+world+blinds+us+to+the+fact+that+anti-communism+already+has%22&pg=PA4#v=onepage (1970)

“Profits are what you make when not working.”

Fonte: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 2, p. 9

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

Fonte: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 11, p. 179

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

1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, Creating The Poor, p. 21
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

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

Fonte: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 12, p. 203

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

4 POLITICAL THEORY AN CONSCIOUSNESS, Political Science Fiction, p. 231
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

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

5 MISCELLANY AND MEMORABILIA, Struggles in Academe: A Personal Account, p. 248
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

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

Fonte: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 13, p. 222

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

2 MEDIA AND CULTURE, The Invisible Bloodbaths, p. 132
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

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

Preface to the Sixth Edition, p. viii
Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition

“The mass media are class media.”

2 MEDIA AND CULTURE, Fabricating a "Cultural Democracy", p. 107
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

“It is not Socialism that subverts democracy, but democracy that subverts capitalism.”

Fonte: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 17, p. 320

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

1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, Fascism In a Pinstriped Suit, p. 32
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

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

3 CONSPIRACY: PHOBIA AND REALITY, The JFK Assassination I, p. 159
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

“The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.”

Fonte: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 14, p. 259

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

Fonte: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 6, p. 81

“Conservative pundits have a remarkable amount of free speech.”

1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, Free Speech-At A Price, p. 83
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

“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.”

2 MEDIA AND CULTURE, Some Call It Censorship, p. 150
Dirty truths (1996), first edition