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Yuval Noah Harari | “I think maybe in a couple of decades when people look back

in Yuval Noah Harari

"I think maybe in a couple of decades when people look back, the thing they will remember from the Covid crisis is this is the moment when everything went digital and this was the moment when everything became monitored, that we agreed to be surveilled all the time, not just in authoritarian regimes, but even in democracies and maybe most importantly, this was the moment when surveillance started going under the skin, because really we haven’t seen anything yet. I think that the big process that’s happening right now, the world is hacking human beings, the ability to hack humans, to understand deeply what’s happening within you, what makes you go.

For that, the most important data is not what you read and who you meet and what you buy, it’s what’s happening inside your body. We have these two big revolutions-the Computer Science revolution or the infotech revolution and the revolution in the biological sciences and they are still separate, but they are about to merge. They are merging around I would say, the biometric sensor. It’s the thing, it’s the gadget, it’s the technology that converts biological data into digital data that can be analyzed by computers and having the ability to really monitor people under the skin, this is the biggest game changer of all because this is the key for getting to know people better than they know themselves."

Yuval Noah Harari

Fritz Bauer | no to state injustice

"The certainly stirring but decisive lesson of our trials, however, demands a readiness to say an unequivocal no to state injustice." The trials demand that people renounce private and family advantages and are also prepared to make personal sacrifices if they are required to do or tolerate evil, even if it is the state that makes itself the advocate of evil."
Fritz Bauer

Fritz Bauer | obedience par excellence is a virtue

"Unfortunately, it is a typical German trait to think that obedience par excellence is a virtue. We need the civil courage to say 'no'."

Fritz Bauer

Aristoteles | Tyrants must ensure

in Aristoteles, Aristotle

"Tyrants must ensure that the people are poor, busy, lonely, distrustful, highly taxed, distracted by trivia, spied on, and at war."

Aristoteles

Aldous Huxley | Liberties aren’t given, they are taken

in Uncategorized

"Liberties aren't given, they are taken."

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley | A really efficient totalitarian state

in Aldous Huxley

"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude."

Aldous Huxley | Schöne neue Welt

George Orwell | Real power is achieved

in George Orwell

"Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges."

Dr. John Coleman | A One World Government […] in the form of a feudal system as it was in the Middle Ages.

in John Coleman

"A One World Government and one-unit monetary system under permanent non-elected hereditary oligarchists who self-select from among their numbers in the form of a feudal system as it was in the Middle Ages.

In this One World entity, population will be limited by restrictions on the number of children per family, diseases, wars, famines, until 1 billion people who are useful to the ruling class, in areas which will be strictly and clearly defined, remain as the total world population.

There will be no middle class, only rulers and servants. All laws will be uniform under a legal system of world courts practicing the same unified code of laws, backed up by a One World Government police force and a One-World unified military to enforce laws in all former countries where no national boundaries shall exist.

The system will be on the basis of a welfare state; those who are obedient and subservient to the One World Government will be rewarded with the means to live; those who are rebellious will simply be starved to death or be declared outlaws, thus a target for anyone who wishes to kill them.

Privately-owned firearms or weapons of any kind will be prohibited."

Dr. John Coleman

John Quincy Adams | I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry

"I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils under which the Union is now laboring ... a conspiracy of the few against the equal rights of the many ...Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good."

John Quincy Adams

Petr Skrabanek | The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth

in Petr Skrabanek

"The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state ideology, healthism for short, it becomes a symptom of political sickness."

Petr Skrabanek

Max Planck | Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind

"Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with."

Max Planck

Marcia Angell | It is simply no longer possible

in Marcia Angell

“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as editor of The New England Journal of Medicine”

Marcia Angell

Richard Horton | The case against science is straightforward

in Richard Horton

“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness”

Richard Horton

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach | Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom

in Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom."

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Erich Mielke | Fear, is the most effective driving force of human action

in Erich Mielke

"Fear, is the most effective driving force of human action".

Erich Mielke (Allegedly)

José Luis Sampedro Sáez | They govern us through fear

in José Luis Sampedro

"They govern us through fear."

José Luis Sampedro Sáez

Tony Benn | I think there are two ways in which people are controlled

in Anthony „Tony“ Neil Wedgwood Benn, Tony Benn

"I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all, frighten people, and secondly, demoralise them. An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern. And I think there’s an element in the thinking of some people... ‘We don’t want people to be educated, healthy and confident, because they would get out of control."

Tony Benn

Edwin Grant Conklin | Dictators seek to control men’s thoughts

in Edwin Grant Conklin

“Dictators seek to control men’s thoughts as well as their bodies and so they attempt to dictate science, education and religion. But dictated education is usually propaganda, dictated history is often mythology, dictated science is pseudo-science.”

Edwin Grant Conklin

Doris Lessing | “You are in the process of being indoctrinated”

in Doris Lessing

"Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: "You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society."

Doris Lessing

Dara O’Briain | Science knows it doesn’t know everything

in Dara O’Briain

"Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you."

Dara O'Briain

Edward Bernays | If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind

in Edward Bernays

"If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it."

Edward Bernays

Marcus Aurelius | Everything we hear is an opinion

in Marcus Aurelius, Mark Aurel

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

Marcus Aurelius

Volker Pispers | What do you think would be going on here

in Volker Pispers

"What do you think would be going on here, if more people realized what was going on?"

Volker Pispers

Bertolt Brecht | When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible

in Bertolt Brecht

"When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer."

Bertolt Brecht

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

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

Will Spencer | an alcoholic trying to drink yourself sober

in Will Spencer

"If your answer to every failure of government is more government, you are like an alcoholic trying to drink yourself sober."

Will Spencer

Gustave Le Bon | The masses have never thirsted after truth

in Gustave Le Bon

"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

Plato | No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth

"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth."

Plato

Plato | Those who tell the stories rule society

"Those who tell the stories rule society."

Plato