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Quotes from Dirty truths — Michael Parenti

1933–2026 United States

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

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

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

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

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The real danger we face is not from terrorism, but what is being done under the pretext of fighting it.

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

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

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Conservatives have nothing against incumbency when it is their people who are filling the slots.

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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.

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Conservative pundits have a remarkable amount of free speech.

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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.

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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.

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Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.

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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.

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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.

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The mass media are class media.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michael Parenti (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.