To Kill a Nation Quotes

“It is the powerful who write the laws of the world-- and the powerful who ignore these laws when expediency dictates.”
― Michael Parenti, To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia

“While representatives of big business preach the virtues of self-reliance to the general public, they themselves run to the government for a whole basketful of handouts. They receive from federal, state, and local governments billions of dollars in start-up capital, research and development funding, equity capital, bailout aid, debt financing, low-interest loans, loan guarantees, export subsidies, tax credits, and other special favors. Courtesy of the US taxpayer, government provides private industry with a publicly funded transportation infrastructure of airports, train depots, port facilities, canals, and harbors. And public capital is used to develop whole sectors of the economy, such as the airline industry, telecommunications, the nuclear industry, the Internet, and various medical and pharmaceutical products—which are then handed over to private corporations to market and reap the profits.”
― Michael Parenti, To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia

“The only god worshiped in the New World Order is the dollar. The war was good only for business and arms dealers.”
― Michael Parenti, To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia

“The demonized image is so firmly entrenched as to make evidence irrelevant.”
― Michael Parenti, To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia

“For globalization to work, America can’t be afraid to act like the almighty superpower it is. ... The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist—McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.”
― Michael Parenti, To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia

“Western diktat was deemed democratic simply by virtue of being Western.”
― Michael Parenti, To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia

“Rather than ascribing reified, self-determining powers to concepts like truth and falsehood, we should note that the lies our leaders tell us succeed so well because they are given repeated and ubiquitous dissemination. The truth seldom catches up because those who rule nations and manage the mass communication universe have no interest in giving it equal currency.”
― Michael Parenti, To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia

“Lies have wings while truth feebly slogs behind, destined never to catch up.”
― Michael Parenti, To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia

“Western leaders talk of peace, and perpetrate merciless wars. They call for democracy while supporting ex-Nazis and fostering despotic intercessions. They hail self-determination while exercising coercive colonial rule over other peoples. They denounce ethnic cleansing while practicing it themselves.”
― Michael Parenti, To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia