Zitate

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

"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

"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

"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

"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

Bertolt Brecht | Madness becomes invisible

"Madness becomes invisible when it has reached sufficiently large dimensions."

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

"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

"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

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

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

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

Thomas Jefferson | I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery

"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery."

Thomas Jefferson

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

Abraham Lincoln | If you want to test a man’s character, give him power

"If you want to test a man's character, give him power,"

Abraham Lincoln

Mark Twain | Get your facts first

"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

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Russell M. Nelson | Even if everyone is doing it, wrong is never right

"Even if everyone is doing it, wrong is never right"

Russell M. Nelson

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“

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 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”

"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.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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)

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 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

"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

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

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