Michael Parenti Quotes

I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists.

Michael Parenti

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• Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is 'The Meditations.' It's not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Moral

• A lot of fans have been requesting that in-your-face song, a sense of feeling empowered. And 'Good Woman' is that: a relatable song celebrating the good woman. I'm also really proud of the third verse, which I wrote.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Good
  • Song
  • Feeling

• In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Religious
  • Vision

• Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food diet route, but got ill. It was really hard, especially in Britain in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill and anemic, so I stopped that and became a vitamin junkie. I just ate lots of vegetables, exercised and breathed.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Trying
  • Interesting
  • Food

• I enjoy seeing new places.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Enjoy
  • New
  • Seeing

• Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Great
  • Dream
  • Imagination

• If you have to forecast, forecast often.

  

  Edgar Fiedler
  • Business
  • You
  • Forecast

• Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Nature
  • Today
  • Political

• I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • House
  • Hand
  • Like

• When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Death
  • Night
  • Middle-class

• Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Economy
  • Sustainability

• The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Heart
  • Singing
  • Voice

• I always hated perfect TV moms because I always thought that was unrealistic.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Perfect
  • Thought
  • Because

• I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Work
  • Team
  • Management

• I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop. Still, it's not a bad life, is it? You just sit at a computer and make stuff up.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Life
  • Rock
  • Star

• When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train to Boston. And when you got there, to a bookstore, there was no such thing as a science-fiction section.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Book
  • Science
  • Boy

• In one sense, the Parkers are the beginning and end of the Comanches in U.S. history.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • History
  • Beginning
  • Sense

• A game is defined by the players' strategy domains and payoff functions.

  

  Leonid Hurwicz
  • Game
  • Strategy
  • Functions

• The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.

  

  Will Hutton
  • Decision
  • Financial
  • Capitalism

• Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing the glitter of them into the dullest hue of lead.

  

  Sean O'Casey
  • Laughter
  • Glitter
  • Pretentious

• The journey will be difficult. The road will be long. I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Long
  • American

• I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

  

  John Milton
  • Pride
  • Virtue
  • Tongue

• I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists.

  

  Michael Parenti
  • Capitalism
  • Defend
  • Argue