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Rumi | You can beat 40 scholars with one fact

“You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you can’t beat one idiot with 40 facts” Rumi | mewlana_jalaluddin_rumi “Du kannst 40 Gelehrte mit einer Tatsache schlagen, aber du kannst nicht einen Idioten mit 40 Tatsachen schlagen” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Jon Rappoport | Socialism is

“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…

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

“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 (1870-1945) American libertarian author, editor, educational theorist, Georgist, social critic “Der Staat ist sowohl in seiner…

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

“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have.” Thomas Jefferson “Eine Regierung, die groß genug ist, um dir alles zu geben, was du willst, ist eine Regierung, die groß genug ist, um dir alles zu nehmen, was du hast.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Ludwig von Mises | The champions of socialism

“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…

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Milan Kundera | The first step in liquidating a people

“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 “Der erste Schritt zur Eliminierung von Menschen, besteht darin, ihr Gedächtnis zu löschen. Zerstören Sie ihre Bücher, ihre Kultur, ihre Geschichte. Dann bitten Sie jemanden, neue Bücher zu schreiben, eine neue Kultur…

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Edmund Burke | Their passions forge their fetters

“Until you could make out practically that great work, a combination of opposing forces, “a work of labour long, and endless praise,” the utmost caution ought to have been used in the reduction of the royal power, which alone was capable of holding together the comparatively heterogeneous mass of your states. But at this day, all these considerations are unreasonable. To what end should we discuss the limitations of royal power? Your king is in prison. Why speculate on the measure and standard of liberty? I doubt much, very much…

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Fjodor Dostojewski | The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping

“The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.” Fjodor Dostojewski “Der beste Weg, einen Gefangenen an der Flucht zu hindern, ist, dafür zu sorgen, dass er nie erfährt, dass er im Gefängnis ist.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Barack Obama | Ordinary men and women are too small-minded

“Ordinary men and women are too small-minded to govern their own affairs, that order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign.” Barack Hussein Obama II (Präsident Obama spricht im Palais des Beaux Arts) “Gewöhnliche Männer und Frauen sind zu kleingeistig, um ihre eigenen Angelegenheiten zu regeln. Ordnung und Fortschritt können nur entstehen, wenn der Einzelne seine Rechte an einen allmächtigen Souverän abtritt.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Napoleon Bonaparte | A higher power is pushing me to a goal

“A higher power is pushing me to a goal i don’t know. Until it is reached, i will be invulnerable, unshakeable. As soon as i’m no longer needed, one fly will be enough to knock me down.” Napoleon Bonaparte “Eine höhere Macht treibt mich zu einem Ziel, das ich nicht kenne. Solange es nicht erreicht ist, werde ich unverwundbar sein, unerschütterlich. Sobald ich nicht mehr gebraucht werde, wird eine einzige Fliege genügen, um mich zu Fall zu bringen.” “Une puissance supérieure me pousse à un but que j’ignore. Tant qu’il…

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Tom Clancy | What the government is good at is collecting taxes

“What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” Tom Clancy (Thomas „Tom“ Leo Clancy Jr. | war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller) “Die Regierung ist gut darin, Steuern einzutreiben, Freiheiten zu nehmen und Menschen zu töten. Sonst taugt sie nicht viel.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Klaus Kinski | If the government was replaced by the mafia

“If the government was replaced by the mafia we’d probably have half as much corruption and twice as much fun.” Klaus Kinski (1926-1991) “Wenn man die Regierung durch die Mafia ersetzen würde, hätten wir vermutlich halb so viel Korruption und doppelt so viel Spaß.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Benjamin Constant | When you pay the representatives of the people

“When you pay the representatives of the people, you do not arouse in them an interest in performing their functions conscientiously; rather, you interest them only in continuing to secure for themselves the exercise of those functions.” Benjamin Constant | eigentlich Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque “Wenn man die Vertreter des Volkes bezahlt, so weckt man in ihnen nicht das Interesse, ihre Funktionen gewissenhaft zu erfüllen, man interessiert sie vielmehr nur daran, sich die Ausübung dieser Funktionen auch weiterhin zu sichern.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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John Edgar Hoover | a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists

“The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.” John Edgar Hoover | Gründer und Ex-Direktor des FBI “Der Einzelne hat das Problem, dass er mit einer so monströsen Verschwörung konfrontiert ist, dass er nicht glauben kann, dass sie existiert….

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Ayn Rand | He is free to evade reality

“He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.” Ayn Rand “Es steht ihm frei, sich der Realität zu entziehen, es steht ihm frei, seinen Verstand zu verwirren und blindlings jeden Weg zu beschreiten, der ihm gefällt, aber es steht ihm nicht frei, dem Abgrund zu vermeiden, den er nicht sehen will.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Friedrich Nietzsche | We live in a system

“We live in a system in which one must either be a wheel or get crushed by the wheels.” Friedrich Nietzsche „Wir leben in einem System, in dem man entweder Rad sein muß oder unter die Räder gerät.“ Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Karl Jaspers | Where is the Federal Republic headed?

“Every four years it elects the Bundestag. The lists or persons submitted to it by the parties are already elected beforehand by the parties. The process of this hidden preliminary election, which is the actual election, is convoluted; the names for the constituency lists and the state lists are not drawn up in the same way. But it is always the party committees, never the people, who would be involved in this decisive beginning. One must be a party member in order to participate somewhere in this election and to…

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Caitlin Johnstone | The empire still fears the public

“The empire still fears the public. If it didn’t it wouldn’t bother rolling out so much propaganda ahead of all its depraved actions—it would just act. They work so hard to manufacture our consent because they’re still afraid of what we’ll do to them if we decide we don’t consent.” Caitlin Johnstone | Autorin „Das Imperium hat immer noch Angst vor der Öffentlichkeit. Wenn es das nicht täte, würde es sich nicht die Mühe machen, so viel Propaganda im Vorfeld all seiner verderblichen Aktionen zu verbreiten – es würde einfach…

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Woody Harrelson | Of course, we live in a completely corrupted world

“Of course, we live in a completely corrupted world where every government is just a bunch of businessmen working for a bunch of bigger businessmen and none of them give a shit about the people. The sad fact is no one knows how to change it, because no one knows how to take on the corporations. So I guess we’re stuck with this system until the oil runs out.” Woodrow Tracy „Woody“ Harrelson ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler “Natürlich leben wir in einer völlig korrupten Welt, in der jede Regierung nur…

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Thomas Jefferson | When government fears the people

“When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” Thomas Jefferson “Wenn die Regierung das Volk fürchtet, gibt es Freiheit. Wenn das Volk die Regierung fürchtet, gibt es Tyrannei.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Georg Orwell | What counts is that we don’t betray each other

“It’s not so much staying alive, it’s staying human that’s important. What counts is that we don’t betray each other.” Georg Orwell “Es geht nicht so sehr darum, am Leben zu bleiben, es ist wichtig, menschlich zu bleiben. Was zählt, ist, dass wir einander nicht verraten.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Rose Wilder Lane | No state, no government exists

“The picture of the economic revolution as the final step to freedom was false as soon as I asked myself that question. For, in actual fact, The State, The Government, cannot exist. They are abstract concepts, useful enough in their place, as the theory of minus numbers is useful in mathematics. In actual living experience, however, it is impossible to subtract anything from nothing; when a purse is empty, it is empty, it cannot contain a minus ten dollars. On this same plane of actuality, no State, no Government, exists….

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Noam Chomsky | Therefore it’s important to distract them

“The bewildered herd is a problem. We’ve got to prevent their roar and trampling. We’ve got to distract them. They should be watching the Superbowl or sitcoms or violent movies. Every once in a while you call on them to chant meaningless slogans like “Support our troops.” You’ve got to keep them pretty scared, because unless they’re properly scared and frightened of all kinds of devils that are going to destroy them from outside or inside or somewhere, they may start to think, which is very dangerous, because they’re not…

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Georges Bernanos | violence in the service of the totalitarian state

“It is not the use of violence that seems to me condemnable, but its mysticism, the religion of violence in the service of the totalitarian state, in the service of the dictatorship of the general welfare, considered not as a means but as an end.” Georges Bernanos (Schriftsteller, wird als “französischer Dostojewski” bezeichnet, “Monsieur Ouine”, “Les Grands Cimetières sous la Lune”, “Nouvelle Histoire de Mouchette” | Frankreich, 1888 – 1948). “Nicht der Gebrauch der Gewalt erscheint mir verdammenswert, sondern ihre Mystik, die Religion der Gewalt im Dienste des totalitären Staates,…

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Yuval Noah Harari | to gain control over the world

“I mean science, as an institution, is interested in gaining the power — to gain control over the world — to be able to gain control over diseases, over the human body, over the environment, over rivers and animals and forests. You have to submit a grant to somebody to fund, it all comes down to money, in many cases. It’s also an institution- If you’re a freelance scientist, you just explore the truth. Okay. But in an institution, a university, you need money to finance so you submit a…

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Gore Vidal | The modern dictatorship doesn’t come with brown or black uniforms

“What is a president, then? He is the mouthpiece of the corporations – and nothing else. [….] We are no longer a democracy. We gave up our constitution long ago. [….] The modern dictatorship doesn’t come with brown or black uniforms. We do it with entertainment, with television, with fun, fun. And an education that dumbs down.” Gore Vidal, US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Politiker, „Stern“ Nr. 36/2000 “Was ist denn ein Präsident? Er ist das Sprachrohr der Konzerne – und sonst gar nichts. [….] Wir sind keine Demokratie mehr. Wir haben…

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

“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. ” Clarence Darrow (war ein amerikanischer Anwalt, Mitglied der American Civil Liberties Union und ein Gegner der Todesstrafe.) “Du kannst deine Freiheiten in dieser Welt nur schützen, indem du die Freiheit des anderen schützt. Du kannst nur frei sein, wenn ich frei bin.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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

“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…

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George Orwell | These people don’t see that

“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 “Die Menschen erkennen nicht, dass bei Befürwortung totalitärer Methoden die Zeit kommen kann, in denen sie gegen statt für einen eingesetzt werden.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…