“The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.”
Michael Parenti (1933) American academic
1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, Creating The Poor, p. 21
Dirty truths (1996), first edition
1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, Fascism In a Pinstriped Suit, p. 32
Dirty truths (1996), first edition
“The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.”
Michael Parenti (1933) American academic
1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, Creating The Poor, p. 21
Dirty truths (1996), first edition
Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist
Letter (1811-05-31) referring to the Peninsular War [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
Bill Mollison (1928–2016) Australian permaculturist
Source: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 9.1
Walter Rodney book How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), p. 316.
Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer
"Introduction" to New World or No World (1970)
General sources
Stephen Harper (1959) 22nd Prime Minister of Canada
Speaking in Montréal, 1997. Sourced from Rebel Youth magazine, Fall-Winter Edition 2006.
1990s
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“Can there be a more horrible object in existence than an eloquent man not speaking the truth?”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
Address as Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, (1866), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Attributed
“Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.”
Michael Parenti (1933) American academic
2 MEDIA AND CULTURE, The Invisible Bloodbaths, p. 132
Dirty truths (1996), first edition