Michael Parenti Famous Quotes
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 Quotations
"The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched."
Jo Coudert
"You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose."
Lou Holtz
"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."
Aristotle
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
Henry Havelock Ellis
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
John Steinbeck
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
Sir Winston Churchill
"Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom."
Alfred Victor Vigny
"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
"There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough."
Irwin Shaw
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
Calvin Coolidge