Bertrand Russell | system of deception
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"Educational systems have been developed not to impart genuine knowledge but to make the people docile to the will of the rulers. Without a sophisticated system of deception in schools, it would be impossible to maintain the appearance of democracy. It is not desired that ordinary citizens think for themselves. Because it is believed that people who think for themselves are difficult to handle. Only the elites are supposed to think. The rest are supposed to obey and follow their leaders, like a herd of mutton. This doctrine has corrupted all state education systems from the ground up, even in democracies."
Bertrand Russell
Nesta Webster | to attain the masters of the world
"The art of Illuminism lay in enlisting dupes as well as adepts and by encouraging dreams of honest visionaries or the schemes of fanatics. By flattering the vanity of ambitious egotists, by working on the unbalanced brains or by playing such passions as greed and power to make men of totally divergent aims serve the secret purpose of the sect. People with money were welcomed but kept oblivious of actual secrets. The purpose is to win power and riches, to undermine secular or religious government and to attain the masters of the world."
Nesta Webster
Vicco von Bülow | Men have more imagination!
"Men have more imagination! A woman would never have flown to the moon. That's a purely male idea. If women ruled us, we might not have satellite TV, but we would have saved a lot of money."
Vicco von Bülow
Hans Herbert von Arnim | legitimizing power despite its democratic shortcomings
"The political class is supported by the many-thousand-voiced chorus of those who are committed to it by the already accomplished or still hoped-for awarding of offices and dignities. The proof of deficiencies is made difficult at the outset by the fact that there is an abundance of thought patterns (paradigms), formulas and theories that support the basic ideological thesis of the quasi-automatic functioning of the system. They seek to close the gap between norm and reality not by improving reality, but by interpreting the norm laxly or by obfuscating reality. Serving the cause of legitimizing power despite its democratic shortcomings: scientific paradigms, political formulas, scientific theories, prohibitions of thought and language (= "political correctness"), stagings of reality and the so-called political education (...) If one does not let oneself be blinded by the blinkered paradigms and political formulas saber and does not let the way to knowledge be shifted by glossing over theories, then one recognizes that the two basic principles of our form of government, public welfare and democracy, are realized by the existing system only to a very limited extent."
Hans Herbert von Arnim
Friedrich Nietzsche | Nobody is more inferior
"Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal."
Friedrich Nietzsche
George Bernard Shaw | The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings
"The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate."
George Bernard Shaw
Rudolf Augstein | It does not really matter
"It does not really matter whether democracy functions according to it's original idea but rather that it is seen as functional by the population."
Rudolf Augstein
José Ortega y Gasset | Universal suffrage
"Universal suffrage did not give the masses the right to decide, but to approve the decision of one elite or another."
José Ortega y Gasset
Rudolf Steiner | to an intolerable tyranny
"What would be in store for mankind, for example, if one wanted to take advantage of the fear of bacilli and create regulations of a legal nature against the fight against bacilli. ( ) It is impossible to control all this, but it would lead to impossible conditions, to an intolerable tyranny."
Rudolf Steiner
Noam Chomsky | The general population doesn’t know
"The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know."
Noam Chomsky
James Dresden | Die ideale Tyrannei
"Die ideale Tyrannei ist die, die ignorant von seinen Opfern selbstverwaltet wird. Die perfektesten Sklaven sind deshalb die, die sich glückselig und unbewusst versklaven lassen."
James Dresden
James Dresden | A truth’s initial commotion
"A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn’t the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn’t flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."
James Dresden
Donald Trump | The existence of evil
"The existence of evil in our world is not a reason to disarm law-abiding citizens who know how to use their weapon, the existence of evil is one of the very best reasons to arm law-abiding citizens."
Donald Trump
Jack Posobiec | homogenized consumer class of worker drones
"You're going to be a homogenized consumer class of worker drones in order for them to establish Elysium, and this is also where ... the metaverse comes in. Transhumanism, this is your bread and circuses now. It's virtual bread and circuses to distract you from the suffering that goes on all around you."
Jack Posobiec
Carl Sagan on the importance of science education
"We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it? ... Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."
Carl Sagan
Aldous Huxley | The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy
"The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy, a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not dream of escape. A system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, slaves would love their servitude."
Aldous Huxley
Gustav Heinemann | A state is only as free as its gun laws
"A state is only as free as its gun laws"
Gustav Heinemann
Tiffany Madison | Most gun control arguments miss the point
"Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly “free” state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot."
Tiffany Madison
George Orwell | To keep them in control was not difficult
"Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult."
George Orwell, 1984
Vilfredo Pareto | All governments use force
"All governments use force and all assert that they are founded on reason. In fact, whether universal suffrage prevails or not, it is always an oligarchy that governs, finding ways to give to'the will of the people'the expression which the few desire."
Vilfredo Pareto
Adolf Hitler | To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens
"To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens."
Adolf Hitler
Thomas Sowell | Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant
"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. Even countries that were once more prosperous than their neighbors have found themselves much poorer than their neighbors after just one generation of socialistic policies."
Thomas Sowell
Elon Musk | Drug dealers know more about running a business
"Drug dealers know more about running a business than 95% of college professors."
Elon Musk
Marshall McLuhan | The ad teams have billions to spend annually on research
"No group of sociologists can approximate the ad teams in the gathering and processing of exploitable social data. The ad teams have billions to spend annually on research and testing of reactions, and their products are magnificent accumulations of material about the shared experience and feelings of the entire community."
Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan | manage the public’s perception of a subject
"Publicity is the deliberate attempt to manage the public's perception of a subject. The subjects of publicity include people (for example, politicians and performing artists), goods and services, organizations of all kinds, and works of art or entertainment."
Marshall McLuhan
Eddy Lawrence Manson | We manipulate people like crazy
"We manipulate people like crazy in films and they love it. It’s a tremendous release. Every film composer mixes his experiences with a talent for musical manipulation, then projects that Machiavellian power gut to gut. The big thing about sexy music is the power of suggestion. A song with a porno lyric may cause laughter or embarrassment, but never an invitation to the bedroom. Sensual singing, an insistent beat that builds, suggestive lyrics — these are what turn people on today. One of the biggest motivations in record sales is the bedroom lure, which record companies all know about. Music is used everywhere to condition the human mind. Hitler used Wagner to win the German masses to Naziism. Our future music may be a frequency machine feeding impulses to our nervous system through electrodes or the ear, giving us highs and lows more powerful than any drugs in use today. And much more dangerous, too, because nobody takes musical manipulation very seriously."
Eddy Lawrence Manson
Hannah Arendt | those who choose the lesser evil
"In their moral justification, the argument of the lesser evil has played a prominent role. If you are confronted with two evils, the argument runs, it is your duty to opt for the lesser one, whereas it is irresponsible to refuse to choose altogether. Its weakness has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget quickly that they chose evil.[....] Acceptance of the lesser evil is deliberately used to accustom officials, as well as the population at large, to accept the evil itself."
Hannah Arendt
Steve Jacobson | Subliminal perception is a deliberate process
"Subliminal perception is a deliberate process created by communications technicians, by which you receive and respond to information and instructions without being consciously aware of the instructions"
Steve Jacobson
Stephen C. Perkins | psychological warfare, economic and political transformation
"The cavalier expression of such sentiments, the resurrection of a dormant specter from the crypt of America’s “cold war” with the former Soviet Union, is meant purely to foster the viral spread of collective apprehension in the fragile heart of the population which, over the centuries, has proved to be the Jesuit order’s most effective tool in the execution of psychological warfare, economic and political transformation (AKA order out of chaos), and social behavioral modification. Turns out, the looming threat of annihilation at the hands of “nuclear weapons” or viral infection due to the Covid-19 “pandemic” are both hoaxes."
Stephen C. Perkins
Albert Pike | We always give the public their heroes
"We always give the public their heroes. We give the heroes to every faction, and then people once they hear this person say all the right things, we give releases to them because he or she speaks for ‘me’. We say go there go do that and they do it. We give our power to the authorized heroes."
Albert Pike
Jessica Hamed | no longer be able to trust Germany’s highest
"One of the most significant moments for me in my professional career, apart from being sworn in as an attorney, was signing my first - also successful - constitutional complaint. It pains me to no longer be able to trust Germany's highest court in a fundamental way."
Jessica Hamed
Edward Bernays | Our invisible governors
"Our invisible governors are, in many cases, unaware of the identity of their fellow members in the inner cabinet."
Edward Bernays
Aldous Huxley | man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions
"In regard to propaganda, the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or it might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies — the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions."
Aldous Huxley