"The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth."

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Source : "Democracy for the Few". Book by Michael Parenti, 1974.

Michael Parenti

#Government Quotes #Order Quotes #Wealth Quotes

“I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie.”
“Learn what you are and be such.”

Source : Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”
“Subjective time flows forward, the phenomenal self is embedded into this flow, an inner history unfolds. That it is why it is not a bubble, but a tunnel: There is movement in time.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.”
“Kinder the enemy who must malign us Than the smug friend who will define us”

Source : Anna Wickham (1921). “The Contemplative Quarry ; And, The Man with a Hammer”
“You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.”
“Love is ever new because it never groweth old.”
“I don't need to go into office for the power. I have houses all over the world, stupendous boats... beautiful airplanes, a beautiful wife, a beautiful family... I am making a sacrifice.”

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