Jacques Élisée Reclus | the policy of hatred always breeds hatred
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"History permits the well-founded observation that the policy of hatred always breeds hatred and fatally complicates the general situation, if not leads to final ruin. How many nations perished in this way. Oppressors as well as oppressed! Should we also be doomed? I hope not! And I owe this hope also to the anarchist thinking, which penetrates day by day more and more into the light and renews the human initiative."
Jacques Élisée Reclus
Howard Zinn | Our problem is civil obedience
"As soon as you say the topic is civil disobedience, you are saying our problem is civil disobedience. That is not our problem.... Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. And our problem is that scene in All Quiet on the Western Front where the schoolboys march off dutifully in a line to war. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world, in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem."
Howard Zinn
Coudenhove-Kalergi | Today, democracy is a façade of plutocracy
"The form of constitution that replaced feudalism and absolutism was democracy; the form of government, plutocracy. Today, democracy is a façade of plutocracy: since nations would not tolerate a pure form of plutocracy, they were granted nominal powers, while the real power rests in the hands of plutocrats. In republican as well as monarchical democracies, the statesmen are puppets, the capitalists are the puppeteers; they dictate the guidelines of politics, rule through purchase the public opinion of the voters, and through professional and social relationships, the ministers. Instead of the feudal structure of society, the plutocratic stepped in; birth is no more the decisive factor for social rank, but income is. Today's plutocracy is mightier than yesterday's aristocracy: because nobody is above it but the state, which is its tool and helper's helper. When there was still true blood nobility, the system of aristocracy by birth was fairer than that of the moneyed aristocracy today: because then the ruling caste had a sense of responsibility, culture and tradition, whereas the class that rules today is barren of feelings of responsibility, culture or tradition."
Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi
The Analyst | Die Schäfchen gehen nirgendwo hin. Sie mögen meine Welt
"Die Schäfchen gehen nirgendwo hin. Sie mögen meine Welt. Sie wollen diese Sentimentalität nicht. Sie wollen weder Freiheit noch Selbstbestimmung. Sie wollen kontrolliert werden. Sie sehnen sich nach dem Komfort der Gewissheit. Und das bedeutet, ihr zwei, zurück in euren Kapseln, bewusstlos und allein, genau wie sie."
The Analyst (Matrix Resurrections (2021))
Jason Evert | they overlook their power to turn our hearts
"When a woman dresses modestly, I can take her seriously as a woman because she doesn’t look like she’s begging for attention. She knows that she’s worth discovering. Such humility is radiant. Unfortunately, many women are so preoccupied with turning men’s heads that they overlook their power to turn our hearts."
Jason Evert
Nikolaus Kopernikus | So far as hypotheses are concerned
"So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it."
Nikolaus Kopernikus
Charlie Chaplin | As for politics, I’m an anarchist
"As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free."
Charlie Chaplin
Roland Baader | It is … a naivety that cannot be excused by anything to believe
"It is ... a naivety that cannot be excused by anything to believe that a state can be total in the economic sphere without being so at the same time in the political and spiritual sphere ...." ... Democracy and socialism are not a tautology (à la Oskar),but radical, mutually exclusive opposites. Democracy is a method of limiting and controlling power. Socialism, on the other hand, always denies the individual freedom of choice of individuals over their economic preferences and life goals (supposedly in favor of the general public, the collective); thus socialism always assigns sovereignty over the decisive existential forces and life motivations to the state or a party or political cliques, and thus socialism is never a system or method for limiting power, but always and everywhere pseudo-moral justification for patronizing life, carte blanche for cynically moralizing unrestrained power."
Roland Baader
Julian Assange | Every time we witness an injustice
"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love. In a modern economy it is impossible to seal oneself off from injustice."
Julian Assange
Martin Luther | You can’t stop a flock of birds from flying over your head
"You can't stop a flock of birds from flying over your head. But you can prevent it from nesting in your hair"
Martin Luther
Dr. Jörn Berninger | politically or medially predetermined thought prison
"There are always events that are played up in the media and lead to more and more people subscribing to the opinion given from the outside. This in turn leads them to build up beliefs that become a thought prison. If one is stuck in such a politically or medially predetermined thought prison, one begins to identify with it and hardly finds a way out. You have to look for a loophole to break out of this thought prison."
Dr. Jörn Berninger
Dr. Markus Krall | After 3 years of propaganda is apparent
"After 3 years of propaganda is apparent:
- Covid was just flu
- The mortality figures were fake
- Masks were useless
- Vaccination was useless and harmful
- School closures were useless
- The high priests of the Covid cult are corrupt profiteers
What now?"
Dr. Markus Krall
Michael Wendler | We are living at the peak of the time of the false world
"We are living at the peak of the time of the false world. That's why being real gets you shunned. Why speaking truth gets you scorned and banned. Society is at the tipping point of the height of illussion. It takes serious courage to be real right now. Please be brave!"
Michael Wendler
Michael Hoffman | These blind slaves are told they are ‘free’
"These blind slaves are told they are 'free' and 'highly educated' even as they march behind signs that would cause any medieval peasant to run screaming away from them in panic-stricken terror. The symbols that modern man embraces with the naive trust of an infant would be tantamount to billboards reading, ‘This way to your death and enslavement,’ to the understanding of the traditional peasant of antiquity"
Michael A. Hoffman II
Manly P. Hall | If this inner doctrine were always concealed from the masses
"If this inner doctrine were always concealed from the masses, for whom a simpler code had been devised, is it not highly probable that the exponents of every aspect of modern civilization – philosophic, ethical, religious, and scientific-are ignorant of the true meaning of the very theories and tenets on which their beliefs are founded? Do the arts and sciences that the race has inherited from older nations conceal beneath their fair exterior a mystery so great that only the most illumined intellect can grasp its import? Such is undoubtedly the case."
Manly P. Hall
Ludwig Feuerbach | What man does not recognize from himself
"What man does not recognize from himself, he does not recognize at all."
Ludwig Feuerbach
Johann Gottlieb Fichte | will never rise to idealism
"A character flabby by nature, or slackened and bent by mental bondage to learned luxury and vanity, will never rise to idealism."
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Winston Churchill | There is only published opinion
"There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion."
Winston Churchill
William Bathgate | The less of ” proximity” the less like a planet
"This is the testimony of all aeronauts. The earth looks like a huge basin, the edges thereof being on a level with the eye, and the bottom of it miles under one's feet. How disappointing to ascend for the purpose of seeing a shining planet and to come down after having seen only a huge, dark terrestrial basin! The less of " proximity" the less like a planet."
William Bathgate
Niklas Luhmann | the media don’t depict reality, they create it
"Sure, the media don't depict reality, they create it! And that's why we need counter-publicity!"
Niklas Luhmann
Paul Felix Lazarsfeld | The power of radio
"The power of radio can be compared only with the power of the atomic bomb."
Paul Felix Lazarsfeld
Wernher von Braun | the last card is the alien card
“And remember Carol, the last card is the alien card. We are going to have to build space-based weapons against aliens and all of it is a lie"
Wernher von Braun,1977 (cité par Carol Rosin)
Bertrand Russel | I should like to say two things
"I should like to say two things, one intellectual and one moral. The intellectual thing I should want to say is this: When you are studying any matter, or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only what are the facts and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted either by what you wish to believe, or by what you think would have beneficent social effects if it were believed. But look only, and solely, at what are the facts. That is the intellectual thing that I should wish to say. The moral thing I should wish to say…I should say love is wise, hatred is foolish. In this world which is getting more closely and closely interconnected we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way and if we are to live together and not die together we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet."
Bertrand Russell
Machiavelli | He who has once begun to live by robbery
"He who has once begun to live by robbery will always find pretexts for seizing what belongs to others."
Machiavelli
John George Abizaid | The earth is flat and stationary
"The earth is flat and stationary, while the sun, moon and stars are in constant motion" This is the Enlightenment of the World
John George Abizaid
John Hampden | We know this by patient and long continued investigations
"We know this by patient and long continued investigations - the surface of water is a LEVEL SURFACE. This is the key which is unlocking the minds of the people and letting in a flood of light upon the question of the shape of the earth. We know consequently that the surface of earth is a plane surface and that the earth itself can NOT be a globe."
John Hampden
Henry Louis Mencken | The urge to save humanity
"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts."
Henry Louis Mencken
Emiliano Zapata | It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."
Emiliano Zapata
Rob Schneider | If you turn off the news
"If you turn off the news and talk to your neighbors, you'll find that our country is far more harmonious than you're being told"
Rob Schneider
Marvin Simkin | Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch
"Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote."
Marvin Simkin
John Frusciante | EThere were beings of higher intelligence controlling what I was doing
“There were beings of higher intelligence controlling what I was doing, and I didn’t know how to talk about it or explain it… it was very clear to me that the music was coming from somewhere other than me.”
John Anthony Frusciante
C. S. Lewis | you can start where you are and change the ending
"You can't go back and change the beginning but you can start where you are and change the ending."
C. S. Lewis
Samuel Edward Konkin III | Every victim of statism
"Every victim of statism has internalized the State to some degree. The IRS’s annual proclamation that the income tax depends on “voluntary compliance” is ironically true. Should the taxpayer completely cut off the blood supply, the vampire State would helplessly perish, its unpaid police and army deserting almost immediately, defanging the Monster."
Samuel Edward Konkin III