Smedley Darlington Butler | I might have given Al Capone a few hints

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"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents." Smedley Darlington Butler

Rumi | You can beat 40 scholars with one fact

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"You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you can't beat one idiot with 40 facts" Rumi

Charles T. Tart | If it is not in the media… it did not happen

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"If it is not in the media... it did not happen. If it did not happen, but is in the media... we believe it has happened." Charles T. Tart

Erich Limpach | believing yesterday’s lies as today’s truths

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"If people continue to allow themselves to be talked into believing yesterday's lies as today's truths, then tomorrow's whip will make them painfully aware, too late, of the dangers that laziness of thought has in its wake." Erich Limpach

Billy Corgan | the old deal-with-the devil stuff

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"The problem is that there’s not enough money in music as a business model. Where in television and vis-a-vis the advertisers and movies, there’s so much money that the controlling forces still circle around the stars in the right way, stars are taken care of better in those industries. In the music industry it’s still very much this exploitative thing, it’s still very much people signing their lives away, the old deal-with-the devil stuff. That is still going on, it’s unbelievable in this day-and-age that this is still going on." Billy Corgan

Dr. Angela Merkel | all the major decisions did not have a demoscopic majority when they were made

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"But that is precisely why I am also deeply convinced that it is right that we have a representative democracy and not a plebiscitary democracy, and that representative democracy gives us the opportunity for certain periods of time to make decisions, then within these periods of time also to campaign for these decisions and thus to change opinions. Looking back at the history of the Federal Republic, we can say that all the major decisions did not have a demoscopic majority when they were made. The introduction of the social market economy, rearmament, the treaties with the East, the NATO dual decision, the adherence to unity, the introduction of the euro and also the increasing assumption of responsibility by the Bundeswehr in the world - almost all of these decisions were made against the majority of Germans. Only in retrospect did the attitude of the Germans change in many cases. I also think it's reasonable for the population to look at the outcome of a measure first and then form a judgment about it. I think that is an expression of the primacy of politics. And that should also be adhered to." Dr. Angela Merkel

Aldous Huxley | the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach

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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach." Aldous Huxley

Jon Rappoport | Socialism is

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"Socialism is: The taking of money (taxes) from some people who work for it and giving it to others who don't work for it. On a grand scale. The vast expansion of freebies doled out by central government. In order to create and sustain dependence. The government protection of favored persons and corporations, permitting them and aiding them to expand their fortunes without limit, regardless of what crimes they commit in the process. (Monsanto would be a fine example.) The squeezing out of those who would compete with the favored persons and corporations. The dictatorship by and for the very wealthy, pretending to be the servant of the masses. The lie that the dictatorship is being run by the masses. The gradual lowering of the standard of living for the overwhelming number of people. The propaganda claiming socialism is the path to a better world for all. In other words, socialism is a protection racket and a long con and a heartless system of elite control, posing as the greatest good. It is just another form of top-down tyranny---as old as the hills." Jon Rappoport

Albert Jay Nock | The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social

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"The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing." Albert Jay Nock

Aleister Crowley | to delight in dirty and disgusting debauches

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"I have exposed myself to every form of disease, accident, and violence. I have driven myself to delight in dirty and disgusting debauches, and to devour human excrement and human flesh. I have mastered every mode of my mind and made myself a mortality more severe than any other in the world. 1000 years from now the world will be sitting in the sunset of Crowlianity" Aleister Crowley

Mark Twain | Get your facts first

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"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." Mark Twain

Thomas Jefferson | A government big enough to give you everything you want

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"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have." Thomas Jefferson

Melyssa Ford | Satanic Contracts

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"if your if your ultimate goal is to be famous then you're gonna do a lot to do to get there like sign your name and blood in a contract with the devil-that’s just the truth" Melyssa Ford

Justin Timberlake | Satan is my master

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"Right here and right now Ben's gonna a little sad tale To all you people out there Satan is my master He has always been He tells me what to do He buys my Metallica records for me And sometimes I think Thank you very much Satan is my master" Justin Timberlake

Miyamoto Musashi | Truth is not what you want it to be

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"Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is. And you must bend to its power or live a lie." Miyamoto Musashi

Big Manni | You have to understand something elementary

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"You have to understand something elementary, people don't believe what they see, they see what they BELIEVE" „Big Manni“

Ludwig von Mises | The champions of socialism

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"The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau." Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy

Christian Drosten | to isolate viruses in cell cultures. We never succeeded

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"We also tried this for a long time, to isolate viruses in cell cultures. We never succeeded. That's how it is for many labs around the world that have tried. Zhengli Shi is actually the only lab back in Wuhan that managed to do that, to isolate a virus for once.[....] I know Zhengli Shi used the ones in the lab for that as well. Here you have to say, when you do this, practically the first thing that happens with the SARS-2 virus is that this furin site in the virus is destroyed. So when we isolate SARS-2 virus in Vero cells from patients, that furin site goes away immediately because that's a selection disadvantage for the virus in cell culture." Christian Drosten

Just.A.Thought | Being a “conspiracy theorist”

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"Being a "conspiracy theorist" is spending endless hours for years & years gathering as much information as possible from as many resources as possible and critically thinking about what that information means then having people who do nothing but watch TV tell you you're crazy." Just.A.Thought

Friedrich Nietzsche | for what one has forbidden so far as a matter of principle has always been — truth alone.

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"for what one has forbidden so far as a matter of principle has always been—truth alone." Friedrich Nietzsche

Milan Kundera | The first step in liquidating a people

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"The first step in liquidating a people, is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster." Milan Kundera

When a physician walks behind the coffin of his patient

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"When a physician walks behind the coffin of his patient, indeed the cause sometimes follows the effect." Voltaire oder Robert Koch oder Marcus Tullius Cicero (allegedly)

C.S. Lewis | I do not like the pretensions of Government

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“I do not like the pretensions of Government -- the grounds on which it demands my obedience -- to be pitched too high. I don't like the medicine-man's magical pretensions nor the Bourbon's Divine Right. This is not solely because I disbelieve in magic and in Bossuet's Politique. I believe in God, but I detest theocracy. For every Government consists of mere men and is, strictly viewed, a makeshift; if it adds to its commands 'Thus saith the Lord', it lies, and lies dangerously. On just the same ground I dread government in the name of science. That is how tyrannies come in. In every age the men who want us under their thumb, if they have any sense, will put forward the particular pretension which the hopes and fears of that age render most potent. They 'cash in'. It has been magic, it has been Christianity. Now it will certainly be science. Perhaps the real scientists may not think much of the tyrants' 'science'-- they didn't think much of Hitler's racial theories or Stalin's biology. But they can be muzzled.” C.S. Lewis

Charles MacKay | simultaneously impressed with one delusion

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"We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first." Charles MacKay

Richard P. Feynman | To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven

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"To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell. And so it is with science." Richard P. Feynman

ZUBY | One of the biggest problems with college degrees

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"One of the biggest problems with college degrees is they've made a lot of people think they are much smarter than they truly are. This arrogance and smugness makes them dumber because they think they're too smart to receive new information from anybody with fewer 'credentials'." ZUBY

André Gide | It is better to be hated for what you are

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"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." André Gide

Russel Brand | the mainstream media is not your friend

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"I’ve made a lot of mistakes, I’ve been wrong many times but I’m beginning to think I’m right about this: the mainstream media is not your friend, the culture is not your friend, the government is not your friend, big business is not your friend. They are operating collegiately in unison to create a set of systems that are beneficial to them and disadvantage you." Russel Brand