Michael Parenti on Human Nature
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Michael Parenti, catalogued under Human Nature, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Michael Parenti, entry #91922: "Conservatives have nothing againstincumbency when it is their people who are filling the slots."
Attributed to Michael Parenti, entry #74724: "“Individualism” in the untied States refers to privatized ownership, consumption and recreation. You are individualist in that you are expected to get what you can for yourself an…"
3 Quotes by Michael Parenti on Human Nature
"Conservatives have nothing againstincumbency when it is their people who are filling the slots."
"“Individualism” in the untied States refers to privatized ownership, consumption and recreation. You are individualist in that you are expected to get what you can for yourself and not be too troubled by the problems faced by others. This attitude, considered inhuman in some societies, is labeled approvingly as “ambition” in our own and is treated as a quality of great social value."
"The police confront dangers and social miseries of a kind most of us can only imagine. They deal with the waste products of a competitive corporate society: the ill-fed, the ill-housed, the desperate, and the defeated. The slums are not the problem, they are the solution; they are the way capitalism deals with the surplus people of a market economy. And for all they cost the taxpayer in crime, police and welfare, the slums remain a source of profit for certain speculators, arsonists, realtors, big merchants, and others."