Michael Parenti on Truth
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Michael Parenti, catalogued under truth, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Michael Parenti, entry #5221: "The dirty truth is that many people find fascism to be not particularly horrible."
Attributed to Michael Parenti, entry #43921: "Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places."
5 Quotes by Michael Parenti on Truth
"The dirty truth is that many people find fascism to be not particularly horrible."
"Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places."
"The media have been tireless in their efforts to suppress the truth about the gangster state."
"Some writers stress the "irrational" features of fascism. By doing so, they over look the rational politico-economic functions that fascism performed. Much of politics is the rational manipulation of irrational symbols. Certainly, this is true of fascist ideology, whose emotive appeals have served a class-control function."
"While unsparingly praised by generations of classicists for his principled ways, Cicero was often an unprincipled opportunist and dissembler. In 50 b.c., for example, with Caesar's fame and power ascendant, he persuaded the senate to decree a thanksgiving service in Caesar's honor, and himself delivered a hypocritical panegyric - which he privately recanted shortly thereafter in a letter to Atticus:"I was not exactly proud of my palinode. But goodnight to principle, sincerity and honor!"