114 Quotes by Michael Parenti

The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.

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.

The powers that be not only try to control events, but they try to control our memory and understanding of these events, which is part of controlling the events themselves.

One mechanism of repression is the grand jury.

The nation, like the church, has its visible symbols and insignia, its parchments engrossed with the revealed word, its dogmas, hymns, liturgy, holy day celebrations, its early Fathers, prophets and martyrs, its priesthood and its lay sodality, its myths of sacred genesis and apocalyptic crises, its world-saving mission and its missionaries.

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.

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

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

A tiny portion of the population controls the lions share of the wealth and most of the command positions of state, manufacturing, banking, investment, publishing, higher education, philanthropy, and media... these individuals exercise a preponderant influence over what is passed off as public information and democratic discourse.