"Social media has degenerated into a deafening cacophony of groups signaling and repeating their shared myths."
Naval Ravikant
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.
"Social media has degenerated into a deafening cacophony of groups signaling and repeating their shared myths."
Naval Ravikant
"The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it,"
John Swinton
"What we need is protection from ruinous products, because in reality the banks are a huge mafia that has poisoned the entire world with these products."
Dr. jur. Jörg Haider
"A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom."
Woodrow Wilson
"This is why you have labels for anyone expressing skepticism of establishment narratives like “conspiracy theorist”, “useful idiot”, “Russian asset” or “Assadist”; the powerful people who understand that whoever controls the narrative controls the world need labels to separate the faithful from the heathens. It means the same thing as “heretic”."
Caitlin Johnstone
"History will show that humanity in the 21st century was not enslaved by whips, chains, knives, or guns. It was enslaved by a small black box with around 666 (or so) channels, known as the television. They pump bullshit into our brains and expect us to regurgitate it to the next farmer we talk to."
Unbekannt
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary."
Henry Louis Mencken
"I know the secret of making the average American believing anything I want them to. Just let me control television. You put something on the television and it becomes reality. If the world outside the TV set contradicts the images, people start trying to change the world to make it like the TV sets images."
Hal Becker
"I say we close down the national media for 30 days and watch 80% of the world's problems go away."
Unbekannter Autor
"Hundreds of billions of dollars are spent every year to control the public mind"
Noam Chomsky
"Never let a good crisis go to waste."
Winston Churchill
"For almost two years now, an alleged pandemic has had us firmly in its grip. Day after day, the media and politicians bombard us with narratives and measures. It’s time we take a stand against it. This may be our last chance. If we go along with it and they achieve their goal, life here will become very uncomfortable for us and for future generations. I hope that resistance and clarity continue to grow—and that we force an end to it."
Tobias Levels
"Fear of the virus—fear of getting sick, fear of dying—is the most effective distraction one can politically set in motion: to intimidate people and focus them on that fear so completely that, in the end, you can basically do whatever you want with us."
Dr. Hans-Joachim Maaz
"'Enemies of science' are not the people who question numbers, studies, and measures, but those who want to suppress open debate about them. Blaming and excluding others may give us psychological relief, but it won’t solve the COVID crisis—which by now is more of a societal crisis than a purely health-related one."
Dr. Alexander Zinn
"I'm not saying they're intentionally trying to shut down small businesses, destroy the middle class, transfer the majority of the wealth to the world's largest corporations, and divide us with fear and hatred. But if they were, what would they be doing differently?"
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"The influential news and press agencies are deeply intertwined with the interests of high finance."
Christian Faltermeier
"The mass media are a kind of mouthpiece for the consciousness of the population. If this powerful instrument falls into the wrong hands, it can cause more damage than all available nuclear weapons combined."
Christian Faltermeier
"Perhaps the following current example can best illustrate this point. We do not live in the clerical age, where lay people and clergy fought each other; nor do we live in the state-political age, when state officials and the people fought over democracy. The free growth area in the scientific age lies in a new pair of tensions, namely between research and knowledge. This pair of conflicts is still largely unclear.
We scholars all disguise ourselves as researchers, just as the old clergy behaved like saints in order to hold back the division between clergy and people. This does not change the fact that today the danger of the sciences becoming ossified is looming large.
Scholars are competent and therefore completely incapable of loving the overthrow of their virtue. They are science officials, and they always oppose amateurs. But since research is as much a part of science as the Holy Spirit is part of the Church, there is a great deal of pseudo-research competing with the progress of free research; and only the former is conscientiously supported by official bodies and foundations, because only this appears worthy of support to the professional officials of science.
Such harmful research acts according to the principle: Wash my fur, but don't get me wet.
It researches cancer according to Pasteur's outdated ideas, as if it were rabies.
It examines religion according to Wellhausen's ideas, but because it bases its research on ancient authority, it is extensively funded.
As long as scholars and researchers both remain poor, genuine research has prospects. That was the case until 1900. Today, the prognosis for research is deteriorating because grateful peoples are generously funding “science.” Thus, power is shifting to the side of the knowledgeable, against the researchers.
Our doctor factories and Rockefeller fellows are eloquent witnesses to this."
Eugen Rosenstock
