Michael Parenti Quotes

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted.

Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it's exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather: all pervasive and virtually inescapable.

Political correctness is a war on noticing.

Political correctness is bad.

As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.

Political correctness gets in the way of all too many things in this country of ours, I am not a subscriber of political correctness by any means, shape or form.

I like the free-speech stuff, the political-correctness stuff.

To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.

Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.

A lot of it is backlash against all this political correctness that's going on.

I'm very proud that I was a Goldwater Girl. And then my political beliefs changed over time.

The pejorative term "political correctness" was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of this being a principle to which all Americans claim to subscribe.

What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within the norms of the dominant class.

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

There are forces more powerful and pervasive than the apparatus of war. You may chain a man, but you cannot chain his mind. You may enslave him, but you will not conquer his spirit. In every decade since the war Soviet leaders have been reminded that their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day will come when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks; the mortar crumbles; one day, liberty will dawn on the other side of the wall.

Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.

I think the metric by which television is considered liberal is literally based on the metric of liberalism in each person's soul. Peoples' senses of humor tend to go about as far as their ideology.

There is something wrong with using faith - belief without evidence - as a political weapon. I wouldn't say there is something similar about using science. Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.

I feel like my political beliefs are rooted in the conservatism that I was raised with.

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

America's problem is too much political correctness.

If it is correct to say that there will always be rightist temperaments and leftist temperaments, it is nevertheless also correct to say that political philosophy is neither rightist nor leftist; it must simply be true .

I believe that I am more conservative than George W. Bush. However, it is important to note that he has had to govern, which often necessitates political compromise, I had not had to make any such concessions.