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. Michael Parenti More Quotes by Michael Parenti More Quotes From Michael Parenti 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. Michael Parenti careers teaching writing The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominate political mythology. Michael Parenti 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 argue defend state capitalism I'm not one of those critics that believes U.S. foreign policy is confused, or stupid, or misinformed, or well-intentioned but it goes awry. I think it's a brilliant policy filled with many brilliant, terrible, horrible victories. Michael Parenti think foreign-policy confused stupid Julius Caesar was an aristocrat who sided with the Roman people. He's not my hero, but he was one of a long line of what we'll call 'populares,' which were popular leaders who tried to institute these reforms that the people were fighting for. Michael Parenti fighting hero long people I have never seen John Kerry give anything but an engineered response. Michael Parenti give seen anything never
