Albert Schweitzer | Modern man is held in a frenzy of activity

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"Modern man is held in a frenzy of activity, so as not to reflect on the meaning of his life and the world" Albert Schweitzer

Clarence Darrow | You can only be free if I am free

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"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
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H. P. Lovecraft | It is not a true civilization

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"It is not a true civilization, and has nothing in it to satisfy a mature and fully developed human mind. It is attuned to the mentality of the galley-slave and the moron, and crushes relentlessly with disapproval, ridicule, and economic annihilation any sign of actually independent thought and civilised feeling whith chances to rise above its sodden level. It is a treadmill, squirrel-trap culture – drugged and frenzied with the hashish of industrial servitude and material luxury. It is wholly a material body-culture, and its symbol is the tiled bathroom and steam radiator rather than the Doric portico and the temple of philosophy. Its denizens do not live or know how to live." H. P. Lovecraft

General Aladeen | Why are you guys so anti-dictators?

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"Why are you guys so anti-dictators? Imagine if America was a dictatorship. You could let 1% of the people have all the nation's wealth. You could help your rich friends get richer by cutting their taxes. And bailing them out when they gamble and lose. You could ignore the needs of the poor for health care and education. Your media would appear free, but would secretly be controlled by one person and his family. You could wiretap phones. You could torture foreign prisoners. You could have rigged elections. You could lie about why you go to war. You could fill your prisons with one particular racial group, and no one would complain. You could use the media to scare the people into supporting policies that are against their interests." General Aladeen

George Orwell | These people don’t see that

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"These people don’t see that if you encourage totalitarian methods, the time may come when they will be used against you instead of for you." George Orwell

Barry Jünemann | Faith is the graveyard of many truths

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"And still, no one knows! And the truth remains hidden. Faith is the graveyard of many truths. And the mortician is the system of the self-appointed rulers of this earth. However, people often decorate it with the flowers of ignorance! Faith is the most dangerous instrument of the system since ancient Babylon.... and nobody notices it!" Barry Jünemann

Bertrand Russell | Fear is the main source of superstition

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"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." Bertrand Russell

Noam Chomsky | bludgeon is to a totalitarian state

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"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state." Noam Chomsky

Mahatma Gandhi | the truth is still the truth

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"Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth." Mahatma Gandhi

Friedrich Nietzsche | A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum

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"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." Friedrich Nietzsche

Kurt Tucholsky | Give people more sleep

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"Give people more sleep - and they will be more awake when they are awake." Kurt Tucholsky

Voltaire | our hope our illusion

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"One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion" Voltaire

Salvador Dalí | One day it will have to be officially admitted

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"One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams." Salvador Dalí

Bertrand Russell | on the threshold of a Golden Age

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"It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a Golden Age: but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and that dragon is religion." Bertrand Russell

Bärbel Bohley | the thorough research into the Stasi structures

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"All these investigations, the thorough research into the Stasi structures, the methods with which they worked and still work, all this will fall into the wrong hands. One will examine these structures in detail - in order to then take them over. They will be adapted a little to fit a free Western society. They won't necessarily arrest the troublemakers either. There are more subtle ways to disarm someone. But the secret bans, the watching, the suspicion, the fear, the isolation and exclusion, the branding and muzzling of those who don't conform - that will come back, believe me. Institutions will be created that will work much more effectively, much more finely than the Stasi. The constant lying will also come back, the disinformation, the fog in which everything loses its contour." Bärbel Bohley

Alice Bailey | The Masonic Movement

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“The Masonic Movement when it can be divorced from politics and social ends and from its present paralyzing condition of inertia, will meet the need of those who can, and should, wield power. It is the custodian of the law; it is the home of the Mysteries and the seat of initiation. It holds in its symbolism the ritual of Deity, and the way of salvation is pictorially preserved in its work. The methods of Deity are demonstrated in its Temples, and under the All-seeing Eye the work can go forward. It is a far more occult organization than can be realized, and is intended to be the training school for the coming advanced occultists. In its ceremonials lies hid the wielding of the forces connected with the growth and life of the kingdoms of nature and the unfoldment of the divine aspects in man. In the comprehension of its symbolism will come the power to cooperate with the divine plan. It meets the need of those who work on the first Ray of Will or Power.” Alice Bailey

Lao Tzu | Care about what other people think

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"Care about what other people think, and you will always be their prisoner" Lao Tzu

Harald Schmidt | I also know who among the authors is currently behind with their alimony payments

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"I buy the FAZ on paper - and read NZZ, Spiegel and Bild online before the paywall. But I am just as informed as if I had subscribed to it. When I see the headline and the author, I already know what the text says. I also know who among the authors is currently behind with their alimony payments and therefore has to write in a certain direction." Harald Schmidt

Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann | The process of struggling for public opinion

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"The process of struggling for public opinion has nothing to do with truth, but with domination." Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

George Bernard Shaw | I’m known for my irony

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"I'm known for my irony. But the idea of erecting a Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor would not have occurred to even me." George Bernard Shaw

Alexander Unzicker | Physics has lost its grip on the ground

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"Physics has lost its grip on the ground. For every anomaly, scientists pull a new parameter out of a hat instead of trying to understand the underlying principles. They have accumulated more than 30 "natural constants": all values that no one can explain." Alexander Unzicker

Werner Heisenberg | This mathematical scheme had for me a magical attraction

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"I found in the formulae. which were the results of my collaboration with Kramers, a mathematics which in a certain sense worked automatically, independently of all physical models. This mathematical scheme had for me a magical attraction, and I was fascinated by the thought that perhaps here could be seen the first threads of an enormous net of deep-set relations." Werner Heisenberg

Joseph Sobran | ‘Need’ now means wanting someone else’s money

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"'Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer." Joseph Sobran

Marjane Satrapi | the world is not divided into countries

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"If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same." Marjane Satrapi

Manly P. Hall | When the human race learns to read the language of symbolism

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"When the human race learns to read the language of symbolism, a great veil will fall from the eyes of men. They shall then know truth and, more than that, they shall realize that from the beginning truth has been in the world unrecognized, save by a small but gradually increasing number appointed by the Lords of the Dawn as ministers to the needs of human creatures struggling co regain their consciousness of divinity." Manly P. Hall

Otto von Bismarck | What we learn from History

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"What we learn from History is that no one learns from History." Otto von Bismarck

Leo Tolstoy | The Anarchists are right in everything

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"The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order and in the assertion that, without Authority there could not be worse violence than that of Authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that anarchy can be instituted by a violent revolution. But it will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require the protection of governmental power and by there being more and more people who will be ashamed of applying this power." Leo Tolstoy

Arnold Gehlen | devilish is he who erects the kingdom of lies

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"And last: devilish is he who erects the kingdom of lies and forces other people to live in it. This still goes beyond the humiliation of spiritual separation, then the kingdom of the perverse world is erected, and the Antichrist wears the mask of the Savior (...). The devil is not the slayer, he is Diabolos, the slanderer, is the 'God' in whom the lie is not cowardice, as in man, but domination. He spills the last resort of despair, the knowledge, he instigates the realm of madness, because it is madness to settle in the lie." Arnold Gehlen

Alexander Wagandt | Ideology is what is still holding the whole system together

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"Ideology is what is still holding the whole system together and when that is no longer there.... When people really wake up and realize that they are being held in a mental prison by mental dwarfs, that power dwindles exponentially fast and that is where we are headed. Everything is based on mental, moronic, anti-nature and anti-people concepts. A positive development, however, is that it is becoming more and more transparent." Alexander Wagandt

W.L. Mackenzie King | Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes the nations laws.

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"Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes the nations laws. Usury, once in control, will wreck any nation. Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most sacred responsibility, all talk of the sovereignty of parliament and of democracy is idle and futile." William Lyon Mackenzie King

Thomas Sowell | so many successful politicians are such shameless liars

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"The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy." Thomas Sowell

Ignazio Silone | You can’t beg your freedom from someone

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“You can live in a dictatorship and be free – on one condition: that you fight the dictatorship. The man who thinks with is own mind and keeps it uncorrupted is free. The man who fights for what he thinks is right is free. But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you’re lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you’re not free. Even without any violent coercion, you’re a slave. You can’t beg your freedom from someone. You have to seize it – everyone as much as he can." Ignazio Silone

George Bernhard Shaw | You have to choose between trusting

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"You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold." George Bernhard Shaw