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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 “Wenn sich die Verbrechen häufen, werden sie unsichtbar. Wenn die Leiden unerträglich werden, werden die Schreie nicht mehr gehört. Auch die Schreie fallen wie Regen im Sommer.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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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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Michael Meyen | because it couldn’t learn that anywhere

“The first bachelor generation is just climbing the university chairs. People who are perfectly trained in their craft, who have internalized the hegemonic ideology, and who are good advertising media for a system that needs academic confirmation in order to be able to continue to say ‘democracy’. This generation already determines what ‘good science’ is. It fills journals, conference programs, and so eventually textbooks, lectures, and seminars – with topics, perspectives, and terms it has taken from the political agenda and the tenders linked to it, and which it doesn’t…

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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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Dr. Angela Merkel | all the major decisions did not have a demoscopic majority when they were made

“But that is precisely why I am also deeply convinced that it is right that we have a representative democracy and not a plebiscitary democracy, and that representative democracy gives us the opportunity for certain periods of time to make decisions, then within these periods of time also to campaign for these decisions and thus to change opinions. Looking back at the history of the Federal Republic, we can say that all the major decisions did not have a demoscopic majority when they were made. The introduction of the social…

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Jon Rappoport | Socialism is

“Socialism is: The taking of money (taxes) from some people who work for it and giving it to others who don’t work for it. On a grand scale. The vast expansion of freebies doled out by central government. In order to create and sustain dependence. The government protection of favored persons and corporations, permitting them and aiding them to expand their fortunes without limit, regardless of what crimes they commit in the process. (Monsanto would be a fine example.) The squeezing out of those who would compete with the favored…

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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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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 “Eine Regierung, die groß genug ist, um dir alles zu geben, was du willst, ist eine Regierung, die groß genug ist, um dir alles zu nehmen, was du hast.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Ludwig von Mises | The champions of socialism

“The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in…

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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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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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Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce | ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege

“ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man’s choice.” Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce “Wähler: Einer, der sich des geheiligten Privilegs erfreut, für den Mann stimmen zu dürfen, den ein anderer ihm ausgewählt hat.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Prof. Christoph Degenhart | The broadcasters adopt government lines in an undifferentiated manner

“In the portrayal of political processes, I often see a certain political one-sidedness. For example, when it comes to the topics of ecology or Europeanization, critics are always put in the right-wing corner. [….] The broadcasters adopt government lines in an undifferentiated manner. ARD and ZDF are increasingly acting as an acclamation forum for politics.” Professor Christoph Degenhart | (72 | Leipziger Medienrechtler) “In der Darstellung politischer Prozesse sehe ich oft eine gewisse politische Einseitigkeit. Zum Beispiel werden bei den Themen Ökologie oder Europäisierung Kritiker immer wieder in die rechte…

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Edmund Burke | Their passions forge their fetters

“Until you could make out practically that great work, a combination of opposing forces, “a work of labour long, and endless praise,” the utmost caution ought to have been used in the reduction of the royal power, which alone was capable of holding together the comparatively heterogeneous mass of your states. But at this day, all these considerations are unreasonable. To what end should we discuss the limitations of royal power? Your king is in prison. Why speculate on the measure and standard of liberty? I doubt much, very much…

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Barack Obama | Ordinary men and women are too small-minded

“Ordinary men and women are too small-minded to govern their own affairs, that order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign.” Barack Hussein Obama II (Präsident Obama spricht im Palais des Beaux Arts) “Gewöhnliche Männer und Frauen sind zu kleingeistig, um ihre eigenen Angelegenheiten zu regeln. Ordnung und Fortschritt können nur entstehen, wenn der Einzelne seine Rechte an einen allmächtigen Souverän abtritt.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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George Bernard Shaw | We want a few mad people now

“We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!” George Bernard Shaw “Was wir brauchen, sind ein paar verrückte Leute; seht euch an, wohin uns die Normalen gebracht haben.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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George Orwell | If you want a picture of the future

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” George Orwell “Wenn Sie ein Bild von der Zukunft haben wollen, so stellen Sie sich einen Stiefel vor, der auf ein Gesicht tritt. Unaufhörlich.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Friedrich August von Hayek | all forms of collectivism lead eventually to tyranny

“Through the inevitable mismanagement of resources and goods at the disposal of the state, all forms of collectivism lead eventually to tyranny.” Friedrich August von Hayek “Durch die unvermeidliche Misswirtschaft der Ressourcen und Güter, die dem Staat zur Verfügung stehen, führen alle Formen des Kollektivismus schließlich zur Tyrannei.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Tom Clancy | What the government is good at is collecting taxes

“What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” Tom Clancy (Thomas „Tom“ Leo Clancy Jr. | war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller) “Die Regierung ist gut darin, Steuern einzutreiben, Freiheiten zu nehmen und Menschen zu töten. Sonst taugt sie nicht viel.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Erich Fromm | Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable

“Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable; hence any social, political, and religious system which proclaims freedom, yet stamps out disobedience, cannot speak the truth.” Erich Fromm “In der Tat sind Freiheit und die Fähigkeit zum Ungehorsam untrennbar, daher kann jedes soziale, politische und religiöse System, das Freiheit proklamiert, aber Ungehorsam ausmerzt, nicht die Wahrheit sagen” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Roland Baader | Let us free ourselves from the true evil (state counterfeit money)

“It may be too late to avert the financial disaster that lies ahead of us, but we must at least prevent the road to financial ruin from also becoming a road to servitude. Let’s talk our heads off and write our fingers to the bone, let’s make ourselves outsiders and ridiculed figures if necessary, but let’s fight to ensure that the basis of people’s freedom, the market economy, is not presented to them as the alleged culprit and executed by the henchmen of power under the false pretext. Otherwise, it…

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Klaus Kinski | If the government was replaced by the mafia

“If the government was replaced by the mafia we’d probably have half as much corruption and twice as much fun.” Klaus Kinski (1926-1991) “Wenn man die Regierung durch die Mafia ersetzen würde, hätten wir vermutlich halb so viel Korruption und doppelt so viel Spaß.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Benjamin Constant | When you pay the representatives of the people

“When you pay the representatives of the people, you do not arouse in them an interest in performing their functions conscientiously; rather, you interest them only in continuing to secure for themselves the exercise of those functions.” Benjamin Constant | eigentlich Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque “Wenn man die Vertreter des Volkes bezahlt, so weckt man in ihnen nicht das Interesse, ihre Funktionen gewissenhaft zu erfüllen, man interessiert sie vielmehr nur daran, sich die Ausübung dieser Funktionen auch weiterhin zu sichern.” 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….

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Albert Einstein | The masses are never militaristic

“The masses are never militaristic until their minds are poisoned by propaganda.” Albert Einstein “Die Massen sind niemals kriegslüstern, solange ihr Verstand nicht durch Propaganda vergiftet ist.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Erich Fromm | The holders of authority and those who take advantage of it

“The holders of authority and those who take advantage of it must convince people of this fiction and put to sleep their realistic, that is to say, critical, faculty of thought. Every thinking person knows the methods of propaganda, methods by which critical judgment is destroyed and the mind is lulled until it submits to clichés that stultify people because they make them dependent, depriving them of the ability to trust their eyes and their judgment. This function, in which they believe, blinds them to reality.” Erich Fromm “Die Inhaber…

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Karl Jaspers | Where is the Federal Republic headed?

“Every four years it elects the Bundestag. The lists or persons submitted to it by the parties are already elected beforehand by the parties. The process of this hidden preliminary election, which is the actual election, is convoluted; the names for the constituency lists and the state lists are not drawn up in the same way. But it is always the party committees, never the people, who would be involved in this decisive beginning. One must be a party member in order to participate somewhere in this election and to…

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Caitlin Johnstone | The empire still fears the public

“The empire still fears the public. If it didn’t it wouldn’t bother rolling out so much propaganda ahead of all its depraved actions—it would just act. They work so hard to manufacture our consent because they’re still afraid of what we’ll do to them if we decide we don’t consent.” Caitlin Johnstone | Autorin „Das Imperium hat immer noch Angst vor der Öffentlichkeit. Wenn es das nicht täte, würde es sich nicht die Mühe machen, so viel Propaganda im Vorfeld all seiner verderblichen Aktionen zu verbreiten – es würde einfach…