"Evil cannot create anything new; it can only corrupt and destroy what good forces have invented or created."
J.R.R. Tolkien
Fear-Industry Quotes – Thoughts and Reflections
Collection of 239 quotes on the fear industry, offering thoughtful reflections on fear’s role in society and media.
This collection of fear-industry quotes presents diverse perspectives on the use and effects of fear within social and media contexts. The selected sayings offer philosophical and cultural insights into the significance of fear as an instrument across different domains. These quotes encourage reflection on the influence of fear on individual and collective behavior.
"Evil cannot create anything new; it can only corrupt and destroy what good forces have invented or created."
J.R.R. Tolkien
"We see entire societies suddenly fixate their thoughts on a single topic and lose their minds; millions of people are simultaneously gripped by a single delusion until their attention is captured by a new absurdity more fascinating than the first."
Charles MacKay
"Until they become conscious, they will never rebel, and until they rebel, they cannot become conscious."
George Orwell
"Anyone who actually feels the need to get their hands on the levers of power in order to control other people, to tell them what to do, to scare them, is mentally disturbed."
Prof. Dr. Franz Ruppert
"Puzzlement and doubt are, however, already crimes in the totalitarian state. The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent. In the totalitarian regime the doubting, inquisitive, and imaginative mind has to be suppressed. The totalitarian slave is only allowed to memorize, to salivate when the bell rings."
Joost A.M. Meerloo
"World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings."
Denis Healey
"Mental slavery is the worst form of Slavery. It gives you the illusion of freedom, makes you trust, love and defend your oppressor while making an enemy of those who are trying to free you or open your eyes."
Words Of Wisdom
"Not a day goes by without the mainstream media reporting on some war, epidemic, or other problem in the world. The problem is that this type of reporting, as we find it, is sheer madness. Information is distorted or not mentioned at all. It is the partial truths that make the press so dangerous. Wars are sold as “humanitarian interventions,” diseases are pushed to play into the hands of the pharmaceutical industry. There are always two sides to every coin, but we are only shown one side, which is supposed to be the “truth.” They show us what they want us to see and leave out what does not fit into their desired worldview. At this point, we should ask ourselves whether we want to continue consuming this filth and supporting it financially by buying certain tabloids such as Bild, Spiegel & Co. “Either you rebel, or you become complicit.”"
Ignazio Silone
"When you're watching television, you're watching the news, you're being pumped full of fear. there's floods. There's AIDS. There's murder. Cut to commercial. Buy the Acura. Buy Colgate. If you have bad breath, they're not going to talk to you. If you have pimples, that girl isn't going to fuck you. It's just a campaign of fear and consumption. That's what I think it's based on. This whole idea of 'keep everyone afraid and they'll consume"
Marilyn Manson
"Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders."
Walter Cronkite Jr.
"The lie of tyranny is that you will maintain the freedom of life by obeying authority. The choices it offers you are a lifetime of obedience or death. Evil is the master of deceit. The objective of evil is not violence, but obedience. The purpose of violence is to compel obedience. Its design is the destruction of freedom. Whether submitting to authority and obeying, or allowing it to destroy you physically, you will have lost your freedom. The only way to maintain freedom is to fight tyranny at all times and at all costs."
Jeremy Locke
"Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave"
Frederick Douglass
"We cannot vaccinate our way out of the pandemic. [...] We are currently vaccinating against a variant that no longer exists. [...] Where we no longer have any real protective effect. It was a mistake from the outset to say that we had protection against infection."
Prof. Dr. Hendrik Streeck
"The consequences of fear can be far greater than those caused by the virus itself."
Jens Spahn
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
George Orwell
"Incidence rates are being measured, but not the economic and psychological collateral damage. We need to adapt our pandemic measures accordingly."
Jochen Schweizer
"Unfortunately, science has become political. The virus has become political. And I have said that I do not want to comment on the feasibility and proportionality of this. That is a political question."
Prof. Dr. Hendrik Streeck
"In former times, torture was used. Nowadays, the press is used. That is certainly progress."
Oscar Wilde
