Sunbird Books

“There is nothing sacred about the existing system. All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people.”
― Michael Parenti, Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader

“Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual, for the ideal: that longing which draws people to art. Modern art has taken a wrong turn in abandoning the search for the meaning of existence in order to affirm the value of the individual for his own sake. What purports to be art begins to looks like an eccentric occupation for suspect characters who maintain that any personalized action is of intrinsic value simply as a display of self-will. But in an artistic creation the personality does not assert itself, it serves another, higher, and communal idea. The artist is always the servant, and is perpetually trying to pay for the gift that has been given to him as if by a miracle. Modern man, however, does not want to make any sacrifice, even though true affirmation of the self can only be expressed in sacrifice. We are gradually forgetting about this, and at the same time, inevitably, losing all sense of human calling.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

“Racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is a byproduct of capitalism.”
― Fred Hampton

“How odd that fewer police were needed in the communist police state than in the free-market paradise.”
― Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism