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George Washington | a frightful despotism

“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns…

Friedrich August von Hayek | voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant

“Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom.” Friedrich August von Hayek “Vielleicht hat die Tatsache, dass wir erlebt haben, wie sich Millionen von Menschen durch Wahlen in die völlige Abhängigkeit von einem Tyrannen begeben haben, unserer Generation klargemacht, dass die Wahl der eigenen Regierung nicht unbedingt die Freiheit sichert.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

G. Edward Griffin | They’ve been programmed

“They’ve been programmed and I’m sad because I know that it’s hard for people like that to take an interest – serious interest in world affairs – taken serious interest in what their elected officials are doing and they’re not going to be really inclined to study and or discover the deception that’s being used against them and so I’m sad because I I see all of that in the flash in my mind as being an indication of how easy it is for the masses to be manipulated” G….

Leo Tolstoi | The power of government rests on the ignorance of the people

“The power of government rests on the ignorance of the people, and it knows this and therefore will always fight against enlightenment.” Leo Tolstoi “Die Macht der Regierung beruht auf der Unwissenheit des Volkes, und sie weiß das und wird deshalb immer gegen die Aufklärung kämpfen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

Emma Goldman | Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind

“Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. It stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals…” Emma Goldman | Anarchism and Others Essay “Der Anarchismus steht für die Befreiung des menschlichen Geistes von der Herrschaft der Religion und die Befreiung des menschlichen Körpers vom Zwang des Eigentums; die Befreiung von den Fesseln und Zwängen der Regierung. Er steht für eine…

Dr. Angela Merkel | Almost all of these decisions were made against the majority of Germans

“Almost all of these decisions were made against the majority of Germans. In many cases, the Germans’ attitude has only changed in retrospect. I also think it is reasonable for the population to first look at the result of a measure and then form a judgment about it. I believe this is an expression of the primacy of politics. And that should be upheld.” Dr. Angela Merkel | for the presentation of the Allensbach yearbook of the demoscopy “The Berlin Republic” on March 3, 2010 in Berlin “Fast alle diese…

Benedikt Lux | We replaced the entire leadership of almost all of Berlin’s security

“Measured against what had gone before, we achieved a huge success. We replaced the entire leadership of almost all of Berlin’s security agencies and brought in some pretty good people. In the fire department, the police, the public prosecutor’s office and also the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. I very much hope that this will have a noticeable effect in the future.” Benedikt Lux “Gemessen an dem, was vorher gelaufen ist, haben wir einen Riesenerfolg erzielt. Wir haben die gesamte Führung fast aller Berliner Sicherheitsbehörden ausgetauscht und dort…

Prof. Rainer Mausfeld | The public debating chamber is at the heart of democracy

“The public debating chamber is at the heart of democracy. However, it can only fulfill its function if it is intact in the sense you mentioned. Since the media constitute the public debate space in the first place, they must be designed in such a way that they do not distort it in favor of powerful interest groups. By their very nature, corporate media cannot perform such a task, as their integration into economic power structures almost inevitably makes them an instrument with which powerful economic lobby groups can covertly…

George Carlin | Politicians

“Now, there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our…

Alexis de Tocqueville | democracy | Tyranny | despotism

“Tyranny in democratic republics does not proceed in the same way, however. It ignores the body and goes straight for the soul. The master no longer says: You will think as I do or die. He says: You are free not to think as I do. You may keep your life, your property, and everything else. But from this day forth you shall be as a stranger among us. You will retain your civic privileges, but they will be of no use to you. For if you seek the votes…

Georg Schramm | deflate their speech bubbles

“Interest groups make the policy. They pull the strings on which political puppets hang, who are allowed to pretend democracy on the stage of the Berlin puppet show. These political figures are then allowed to deflate their speech bubbles in the public service institutions with the toilet ladies Christiansen and Illner. And if there is still some dribbling left after their intellectual urination, they can mingle with the people at the emotional piss trough on Beckmann and Kerner.” Georg Schramm | is a German cabaret artist. “Interessensverbände machen die Politik….

Charles H. Spurgeon | Es wird eine Zeit kommen

“A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats.” Charles H. Spurgeon “Es wird eine Zeit kommen, in der die Kirche keine Hirten mehr hat, die die Schafe füttern, sondern Clowns, die die Ziegen unterhalten.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

Rainer Mausfeld | More than 50 years of elite democracy have shown us

“More than 50 years of elite democracy have shown us where this road leads. It is the path of destruction. The destruction of community, the destruction of the idea of community, the destruction of life by the millions, the destruction of cultural and civilizational substance – especially in the Third World – and the destruction of our ecological foundations. The beneficiaries of this destruction have no reason to change this path of destruction. The necessary energy for change can only come from below – from us. That is our task…

Vladimir Lenin | Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed?

“Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?” Vladimir Lenin “Warum sollte die Rede- und Pressefreiheit erlaubt sein? Warum sollte eine Regierung, die tut, was sie für richtig hält, zulassen, dass sie kritisiert…

Max Weber | All political entities are violent entities

“All political entities are violent entities. But the type and degree of the use or threat of external violence against other similar entities plays a specific role in the structure and fate of political communities. Not every political entity is equally “expansive” in the sense that it seeks power externally, i.e., making force available for the purpose of acquiring political power over other territories and communities, whether in the form of incorporation or [of] dependency. The political entities are thus, to varying degrees, outwardly turned entities of violence.” Max Weber…

Zbigniew Brzeziński | The three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy

“The three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.” Zbigniew Brzeziński “Die drei großen Imperative der imperialen Geostrategie sind die Verhinderung von Absprachen und die Aufrechterhaltung der sicherheitspolitischen Abhängigkeit unter den Vasallen, die Aufrechterhaltung der Gefügigkeit und des Schutzes der Tributpflichtigen und die Verhinderung des Zusammenkommens der Barbaren.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

Richard David Prech | If I may be completely honest

“If I may be completely honest, I always think what an accident it was that this woman became Foreign Minister. Under normal conditions, she wouldn’t even have gotten an internship at the Foreign Office. That someone with this moral fervor tries to explain to a class representative of a world power, a cultural nation, what Western values are, defines them as systemic rivals and virtually paints an escalation scenario on the wall, a values-led foreign policy that is in fact a confrontation-led foreign policy, instead of simply baking small rolls…

Lysander Spooner | agents of the people

“If a man is my servant, agent, or attorney, I necessarily make myself responsible for all his acts done within the limits of the power I have intrusted to him. If I have intrusted him, as my agent, with either absolute power, or any power at all, over the persons or properties of other men than myself, I thereby necessarily make myself responsible to those other persons for any injuries he may do them, so long as he acts within the limits of the power I have granted him. But…

Lysander Spooner | Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice

“Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally – perhaps more than equally, because more boldly – rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if intrusted with power.” Lysander Spooner “Mehrheiten als solche bieten keine Garantien für Gerechtigkeit. Sie sind Menschen von derselben Natur wie Minderheiten. Sie haben die gleichen Leidenschaften für Ruhm, Macht und Geld wie Minderheiten; und sie sind ebenso – vielleicht…

Ingolfur Blühdorn | Politics is losing ground dramatically to the power of the markets

“It has long been obvious in the Western tribal countries of democracy that the promises inherent in this concept will probably remain unfulfilled: Politics is losing ground dramatically to the power of the markets; supposedly democratic systems are firmly in the hands of powerfully organized interests and have less and less to do with popular sovereignty – if there ever was any. Social inequality and the disenfranchisement and reification of citizens as mere administrative objects or human resources are advancing inexorably – though every step of disenfranchisement is communicated as…

Coudenhove-Kalergi | Today, democracy is a façade of plutocracy

“The form of constitution that replaced feudalism and absolutism was democracy; the form of government, plutocracy. Today, democracy is a façade of plutocracy: since nations would not tolerate a pure form of plutocracy, they were granted nominal powers, while the real power rests in the hands of plutocrats. In republican as well as monarchical democracies, the statesmen are puppets, the capitalists are the puppeteers; they dictate the guidelines of politics, rule through purchase the public opinion of the voters, and through professional and social relationships, the ministers. Instead of the…

Machiavelli | He who has once begun to live by robbery

“He who has once begun to live by robbery will always find pretexts for seizing what belongs to others.” Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli ( 3. Mai 1469 – – 21. Juni 1527) is a statesman, philosopher and theorist of politics, history and war. “Wer einmal begonnen hat, von Raub zu leben, wird immer Vorwände finden, um sich dessen zu bemächtigen, was anderen gehört.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

Marvin Simkin | Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch

“Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote.” Marvin Simkin “Demokratie ist nicht Freiheit. Demokratie sind zwei Wölfe und ein Lamm, die darüber abstimmen, was sie zu Mittag essen. Freiheit kommt von der Anerkennung bestimmter Rechte, die nicht genommen werden dürfen, nicht einmal durch eine 99 %-ige Abstimmung.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

Prof. Reiner Mausfeld | A ‘war against X’ decreed from above

“A ‘war against X’ decreed from above – be it against ‘terror’ or against a pandemic – is never about what is declared to be fought. All that is sold here as a war against a threat must not be successful at all, because its success for the economic and political centers of power lies precisely in not being successful and in remaining as a means of generating fear and securing domination.” Prof. Reiner Mausfeld “Bei einem von oben verordnetem ‚Krieg gegen X‘ – sei es gegen den ‚Terror‘ oder…

Machiavelli | All power is robbery

“All power is robbery and all its justification is pure ideology.” Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli ( 3. Mai 1469 – – 21. Juni 1527) is a statesman, philosopher and theorist of politics, history and war. “Alle Macht ist Raub und all ihre Rechtfertigung pure Ideologie.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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, hessischer Generalstaatsanwalt “Leider ist es eine typisch deutsche Eigenschaft, den Gehorsam schlechthin für eine Tugend zu halten. Wir brauchen die Zivilcourage, “Nein” zu sagen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

Mark Twain | Politicians and diapers must be changed often

“Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.” Mark Twain | (1835 – 1910), actually Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American storyteller and satirist “Politiker und Windeln müssen oft gewechselt werden, und zwar aus demselben Grund.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

Mark Twain | It is a great consolation in elections

“It is a great consolation in elections that only one of several candidates can be elected!” Mark Twain | (1835 – 1910), actually Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American storyteller and satirist “Es ist schon ein großer Trost bei Wahlen, daß von mehreren Kandidaten immer nur einer gewählt werden kann!” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

Mark Twain | If voting made any difference

“If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it” Mark Twain “Wenn Wählen einen Unterschied machen würde, würden sie uns das nicht erlauben” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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 “Wenn wir den Mechanismus und die Motive des Gruppendenkens verstehen, ist es jetzt möglich, die Massen nach unserem Willen zu kontrollieren und zu reglementieren, ohne dass sie es merken.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…