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Theodore Roosevelt | Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government

“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.” Theodore Roosevelt (Campaign speech 1912) “Hinter der sichtbaren Regierung sitzt auf dem Thron eine unsichtbare Regierung, die dem Volk keine Treue schuldet und keine Verantwortlichkeit anerkennt. Diese unsichtbare Regierung zu vernichten, den gottlosen Bund zwischen korruptem Geschäft und korrupter Politik zu lösen, das ist die Aufgabe…

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G. Edward Griffin | For if you give the state, the authority to grant you your rights

“For if you give the state, the authority to grant you your rights….in that same breath, you have just given them the authority to also take them away” G. Edward Griffin “Denn wenn du dem Staat die Befugnis gibst, dir deine Rechte zu gewähren…., hast du ihm im gleichen Atemzug die Befugnis gegeben, sie dir auch wieder zu nehmen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Murray Rothbard | Limit yourself

“The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.” Murray Rothbard “Der Mann, der alle Waffen und alle Entscheidungsbefugnisse in die Hände der Zentralregierung legt und dann sagt: ‘Begrenzt euch selbst’, das ist der wahre unrealistische Utopist.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Benjamin Franklin | War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is.

“War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself” Benjamin Franklin “Krieg ist, wenn die Regierung dir sagt, wer der Bösewicht ist. Revolution ist, wenn du das selbst entscheidest. Variante: “Krieg ist wenn deine Regierung dir sagt wer der Feind ist-Revolution ist wenn du es selbst rausfinde” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Julian Assange | when asked “Who do you think is the number-one enemy?”

„Our number-one enemy is ignorance. And I believe that is the number-one enemy of everyone. It’s not understanding what is actually going on in the world. It’s only once you start to understand that you can make effective decisions and effective plans. Now the question is: who is promoting this ignorance? […] It is bad media. It really is my opinion that the media in general are so bad we have to question whether the world wouldn’t be better off without them all together. They’re so distortive to how the…

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Philip K. Dick | The basic tool for the manipulation of reality

“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.” Philip K. Dick “Das grundlegende Werkzeug für die Manipulation der Realität ist die Manipulation von Worten. Wenn du die Bedeutung von Wörtern kontrollieren kannst, dann kannst du auch die Leute kontrollieren, die sie benutzen müssen.” This statement by Philip K. Dick succinctly summarizes how language and reality are closely intertwined. Words carry meanings far beyond their mere definition; they are…

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James Paul Warburg | We shall have world government

“We shall have world government, whether or not we like it. The question is only whether world government will be achieved by consent or by conquest.” James Paul Warburg (1868-1932), deutsch-amerikanischer Bankier, Architekt des Federal Reserve Systems „Wir werden eine Weltregierung haben, ob wir es wollen oder nicht. Die einzige Frage ist, ob die Weltregierung durch Eroberung oder durch die Zustimmung der Menschen erreicht werden wird.“ Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Kai Möller | Die Ausgrenzung der Ungeimpften muss enden

“And a free state absolutely respects physical integrity to the extent that medical treatments may not take place against the will of the person concerned. A state that sets out to control the bodies and minds of its citizens is excessive and acts in a totalitarian manner.” Kai Möller (Rechtsprofessor) Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Marcus Aurelius | The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority

“The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” Marcus Aurelius (Zitat ist möglicherweise falsch zugeordnet!) „Das Ziel im Leben ist nicht auf der Seite der Mehrheit zu sein, sondern darin, sich selbst nicht in den Rängen der Wahnsinnigen wiederzufinden.“ Misattributed Quelle: The first citation appears in a translation of Leo Tolstoy’s Bethink Yourselves! The claim made that it is from Marcus Aurelius. Nothing closely resembling it appears in Meditations, nor does it appear…

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Lysander Spooner | The Constitution of no Authority

“It is true that the theory of our Constitution is, that all taxes are paid voluntarily; that our government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily entered into by the people with each other; that each man makes a free and purely voluntary contract with all others who are parties to the Constitution, to pay so much money for so much protection, the same as he does with any other insurance company; and that he is just as free not to be protected, and not to pay any tax, as he…

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Mahatma Gandhi | who dare to question authority

“The world cannot be improved if everyone blindly follows the majority. It needs people who have the courage to question the seemingly irrefutable, who dare to question authority and use their own minds.” Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) | Indischer Pazifist und Anführer der indischen Unabhängigkeitsbewegung “Die Welt lässt sich nicht verbessern, wenn alle blind der Mehrheit folgen. Es braucht Menschen, die den Mut haben scheinbar Unumstössliches infrage zu stellen, die sich trauen, Autoritäten anzuzweifeln und ihren eigenen Verstand zu gebrauchen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Larken Rose | In truth, the belief in “government” is a religion

“In truth, the belief in “government” is a religion, made up of a set of dogmatic teachings, irrational doctrines which fly in the face of both evidence and logic, and which are methodically memorized and repeated by the faithful. Like other religions, the gospel of “government” describes a superhuman, supernatural entity, above mere mortals, which issues commandments to the peasantry, for whom unquestioning obedience is a moral imperative.” Larken Rose (Der gefährlichste Aberglaube | The Most Dangerous Superstition ) “Der religiöse Glaube an die Autorität zielt deshalb auf die Versklavung…

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Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann | a manufactured reality constructed by the media

“What you find in people’s minds today is often not reality at all, but a manufactured reality constructed by the media” Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (Meinungsforscherin, Professorin) “Was Sie heute in den Köpfen der Menschen finden, ist oft gar nicht mehr die Realität, sondern eine von den Medien konstruierte, hergestellte Wirklichkeit” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Michael Crichton | You don’t play ball with the power structure

“…Whoever has the power in society determines what can be studied, determines what can be observed, determines what can be thought. Scientists fall in line with the dominant power structure. They have to, because the power structure pays the bills. You don’t play ball with the power structure, you don’t get money for research, you don’t get an appointment, you don’t get published, in short you don’t count anymore. You’re out. You might as well be dead.” Michael Crichton „…Wer die Macht in der Gesellschaft hat, bestimmt, was studiert werden…

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Ayn Rand | you may know that your society is doomed

“Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion- When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing- when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors- when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you- when you see corruption being rewarded…

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Napoleon Bonaparte | The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization

“The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power – power in its most despotic exercise – absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man [i.e., the Black Pope, the Superior General of the Jesuits]. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses…” Napoleon Bonaparte; 1769-1821;…

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Hermann Göring | to enslave people is to scare them

“It was very easy, it has nothing to do with Nazism, it has something to do with human nature. You can do it in a Nazi, socialist, communist regime, in a monarchy and even in a democracy. The only thing that needs to be done to enslave people is to scare them. If you manage to find a way to scare people, you can make them do what you want.” Hermann Göring | (Alleged quote from Adolf Hitler’s closest confidant, attributed to Hermann Göring, when asked how the German people…

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George Orwell | The really frightening thing about totalitarianism

“The really frightening thing about totalitarianism is not that it commits ‘atrocities’ but that it attacks the concept of objective truth; it claims to control the past as well as the future.” George Orwell | This quote comes from his column “As I Please” in the Tribune newspaper on February 4, 1944, in which Orwell often wrote about political and social issues. It illustrates his criticism of totalitarian regimes and their manipulation of history and reality to gain control over people’s perceptions. “Das wirklich Beängstigende am Totalitarismus ist nicht, dass…

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Yuval Noah Harari | The chief value of science is power

Yuval Noah Harari: Truth was never the highest priority of human society. It was the highest priority of some individuals, but never of society as a whole — because society as a whole does not function on the basis of truth. If you take two of the most powerful institutions of humankind — science and the scientific community, and religion and churches — neither of them has truth as their chief value. For individuals, yes. But as institutions, no. The chief value of science is power. The chief value of…