Michael Parenti on Power
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Michael Parenti, catalogued under power, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Michael Parenti, entry #51019: "The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes."
Attributed to Michael Parenti, entry #173804: "Having never understood the role that existing communist powers played in tempering the worst impulses of Western capitalism and imperialism, and having perceived communism as not…"
3 Quotes by Michael Parenti on Power
"The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes."
"Having never understood the role that existing communist powers played in tempering the worst impulses of Western capitalism and imperialism, and having perceived communism as nothing but an unmitigated evil, the anticommunists did not anticipate the losses that were to come. Some of them still don't get it."
"Caesar’s sin, I shall argue, was not that he was subverting the Roman constitution—which was an unwritten one—but that he was loosening the oligarchy’s overbearing grip on it. Worse still, he used state power to effect some limited benefits for small farmers, debtors, and urban proletariat, at the expense of the wealthy few."