"The most powerful ideologies are not those that prevail against all challengers but those that are never challenged because in their ubiquity they appear as nothing more than the unadorned truth."

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Source : Michael Parenti (2013). “Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader”, p.36, City Lights Books

Michael Parenti

#Powerful Quotes #Ubiquity Quotes #Political Quotes

“One of the glorious things about being a person in the world is that you don't have to worry about whether or not someone else is trying to be creepy.”
“There are only two kinds of class: First class and no class.”
“The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life.”
“Nothing is worth more than this day.”
“Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards by which we hold ourselves and others.”

Source : "Reconnecting with compassion". TED Talks, www.ted.com. November 2010.
“Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.”
“A map is not a journey.”

Source : Phyllis A. Whitney (1988). “Guide to Fiction Writing”, Writer
“The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic.”

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