"To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people."

-- Michael Parenti

#Class Quotes #Numbers Quotes #People Quotes

“The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.”
“There's a vast class - the poor, the underprivileged, the people least likely to vote - who are not represented any more.”

Source : "Class of 2005" by Eleanor Welsh, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2005.
“The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.”
“Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.”

Source : Acceptance speech for the Charles S. Johnson Award at Fisk University, 1966.
“Physical fitness is in. I recently had a physical fit myself.”
“And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.”
“I use a lot of balance training and functional training. Basically it's where you add an element of instability to a regular exercise. So whether it's on the physioball or the Bosu ball or just balancing on one leg, I try to incorporate an instable plane and/or movement to the exercise, so the body's doing two or more movements.”
“Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.”

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