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Thomas Sowell | The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world

“The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.” Thomas Sowell “Der Sozialstaat ist der älteste Trickbetrug der Welt. Zuerst nimmst du den Menschen still und heimlich Geld weg und dann gibst du ihnen einen Teil davon mit großem Getöse wieder zurück.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Charles MacKay | simultaneously impressed with one delusion

“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 | Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds “Wir sehen, daß ganze Gesellschaften plötzlich ihre Gedanken auf ein einziges Thema fixieren und den Verstand dabei verlieren; daß Millionen von Menschen gleichzeitig von einer einzigen Wahnvorstellung ergriffen werden, bis ihre Aufmerksamkeit von…

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

“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…

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When a physician walks behind the coffin of his patient

“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) This joke from the 19th century has been attributed to the philosopher Voltaire in the digitized texts (always without reference to the source) since 1994 and to the Nobel Prize winner for medicine Robert Koch since 2004. In 1896, this joke appears in the following version in a k.u.k. Provincial newspaper in the section “Humor of the week” : “An exception. A professor proclaims…

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

“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 “Ein ‚Verschwörungstheoretiker‘ zu sein bedeutet, jahrelang endlose Stunden damit zu verbringen, so viele Informationen wie möglich aus so vielen Quellen wie möglich zu sammeln und kritisch darüber nachzudenken, was diese Informationen bedeuten, und sich dann von Leuten, die nichts anderes tun als fernzusehen, sagen…

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

“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…

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Big Manni | You have to understand something elementary

“You have to understand something elementary, people don’t believe what they see, they see what they BELIEVE” „Big Manni“ (Filmzitat) “Sie müssen etwas Elementares begreifen, die Leute glauben nicht was sie sehen, sondern sie sehen was sie GLAUBEN” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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

“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 (1584-1645) “Die Wahrheit ist nicht das, was ihr wollt, dass sie ist. Sie ist das, was sie ist und ihr müsst euch ihrer Macht beugen oder eine Lüge leben.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Mark Twain | Get your facts first

“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” Mark Twain “Besorgen Sie sich zuerst die Fakten, und dann können Sie sie nach Belieben verzerren.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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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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Walter Lippmann | a drifting apart of public opinion and published opinion

“…a drifting apart of public opinion and published opinion when the selection rules of the journalists who have been brought into line largely coincide. This creates a consonance of reporting that acts like a confirmation to the audience (everyone says it, so it has to be right) and installs a stereotype-supported pseudo-environment” Walter Lippmann | Public Opinion (1922), dt.: Die öffentliche Meinung) “Das Auseinanderdriften von öffentlicher Meinung und veröffentlichter Meinung entsteht, wenn die Auswahlregeln der gleichgeschalteten Journalisten weitgehend übereinstimmen. Dadurch kommt eine Konsonanz der Berichterstattung zustande, die auf das Publikum…

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Howard Beale | Listen to me! Television is not the truth

“Edward George Ruddy died today! Edward George Ruddy was the Chairman of the Board of the Union Broadcasting Systems and he died at eleven o’clock this morning of a heart condition! And woe is us! We’re in a lot of trouble!! So, a rich little man with white hair died. What does that got to do with the price of rice, right? And why is that woe to us? Because you people and 62 million other Americans are listening to me right now. Because less than 3 percent of you…

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

“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 “Wenn es nicht in den Medien steht, ist es nicht passiert. Wenn es nicht passiert ist, aber in den Medien steht, dann glauben wir, dass es passiert ist.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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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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Nikolas Schreck | Satanism is a religion for the elite

“Satanism is a religion for the elite, it is a religion for leaders, it’s a religion for competent people, it’s not a religion for anyone who wants to be a Satanist” Nikolas Schreck (is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, filmmaker, and Tantric Buddhist religion teacher from Berlin, Germany) „Satanismus ist eine Religion für die Elite, es ist eine Religion für Führer, es ist eine Religion für kompetente Leute, es ist keine Religion für irgendjemanden, der Satanist sein will“ Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Gustave Le Bon | The masses have never thirsted after truth

“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.” Gustave Le Bon “Nie haben die Massen nach Wahrheit gedürstet. Von den Tatsachen, die ihnen missfallen, wenden sie sich ab und ziehen…

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Will Spencer | an alcoholic trying to drink yourself sober

“If your answer to every failure of government is more government, you are like an alcoholic trying to drink yourself sober.” Will Spencer “Wenn deine Antwort auf jedes Versagen des Staats mehr Staat ist, bist du wie ein Alkoholiker, der versucht, sich nüchtern zu saufen. Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Carl Sagan | The bamboozle has captured us

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” Carl Sagan “Eine der traurigsten Lehren der Geschichte ist diese: Wenn wir lange genug beschwindelt wurden, neigen wir dazu, jeden Beweis des Schwindels abzulehnen. Wir…

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Dave Smith | basic human liberties

“If you believe that the most basic human liberties ought to be contingent on taking a product from a giant pharmaceutical company then you are not liberal or left wing. You’re not a conservative or patriotic. There is only one word to describe you and that is Fascist.” Dave Smith “Wenn Sie glauben, dass die grundlegendsten menschlichen Freiheiten von der Einnahme eines Produkts eines riesigen Pharmakonzerns abhängig gemacht werden sollten, dann sind Sie nicht liberal oder links. Sie sind weder konservativ noch patriotisch. Es gibt nur ein Wort, um Sie…

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Russel Brand | the mainstream media is not your friend

“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 „the mainstream media is not your friend“ “Ich habe viele Fehler gemacht, ich habe mich oft geirrt, aber langsam glaube ich, dass ich…

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Prof. Rainer Mausfeld | The leading media as well as the mass media are business models

“The leading media as well as the mass media are business models and serve no more to convey “truth” than the pharmaceutical industry serves to promote public health. Indoctrination is part of the essence of media.” Prof. Rainer Mausfeld | (Interview mit den Nachdenkseiten) “Die Leitmedien ebenso wie die Massenmedien sind Geschäftsmodelle und dienen so wenig der Vermittlung von „Wahrheit“, wie die Pharmaindustrie der Förderung der Volksgesundheit dient. Indoktrination gehört zum Wesenskern von Medien.” 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….