Michael Parenti Quotes About Police

Quotes about: Police

• You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime,
  and that's not true, the function of the police is social control and protection of
  property.

  Michael Parenti

  Believe, Fighting, People

• My point is that it's incorrect to say that the Iraq policy isn't working. It is working. It is doing what they want. They have got control of the oil and they are exporting it, and they have stripped a government that was 90% state owned and they are privatizing it. ... They have taken a country that was self defining and self developing and is now an impoverished prostrate devastated country where people will line up to work for slave wages or become members of the police or army because it's the only job they can get and serve as adjuncts to U.S. imperialism.

  Michael Parenti

  Country, Jobs, Taken

• Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the world.

  Michael Parenti

  Years, Political, Police

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

• Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with its protection must develop its capacity for autocratic control. Thus, the "Free World" increasingly resembles a dreary string of heartless police states.

  Michael Parenti

  Heartless, Police, World

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