Fear-Industry Quotes – 239 Selected Sayings

"We are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world."

Terence McKenna

"And if it continues, then we have to keep going as well. We cannot stop—we cannot say, ‘We’re stopping now with Omicron.’ Omicron will not end the pandemic either, even if that were actually the case—which we will prevent."

Karl Lauterbach

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."

Henry David Thoreau

"TIME: Was there a particular kind of terrorism in Germany associated with Baader, Meinhof, and the others?

Helmut Schmidt: I suspect that all forms of terrorism—whether Germany’s RAF, Italy’s Brigate Rosse, the French, the Irish, the Spanish, or Arab groups—differ little in their contempt for human life. They are surpassed by certain forms of state terrorism.

TIME: Are you serious? Who do you mean?

Helmut Schmidt: Let’s leave it at that. But I do mean what I’m saying."

Helmut Schmidt

"You can protect a society, you can protect an economy, and you can even protect personal relationships to death."

Prof. Ferdinand Kirchhof

"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."

George Orwell

"As proposals for action along new lines arise to compete for the moral and physical support of masses, propaganda attains eminence as the one means of mass mobilization which is cheaper than violence, bribery or other possible control techniques."

Harold D. Lasswell

"Nothing appears more surprizing to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers."

David Hume

"The power structures that have emerged are not democratically legitimized, and they can no longer be voted out of office through any electoral process. The most important power structures in our society are no longer accessible to the voter at all… and one does not want the ordinary citizen to even know that they exist. They are meant to remain invisible within the framework of public debate."

Prof. Rainer Mausfeld

"The fundamental problem with our democracy is that it is not one. The people—the nominal ruler and sovereign—have, in reality, nothing to say. … Behind the democratic façade, a system has been installed in which completely different rules apply than those of the Basic Law. The system is undemocratic and corrupt; it abuses power and unscrupulously deceives citizens. … Every German is free to obey laws to which he has never consented; he may admire the majesty of the Basic Law, whose validity he has never legitimized; he is free to pay homage to politicians whom no citizen has ever elected, and to provide for them lavishly—with his tax money, about the use of which he has never been consulted. Overall, the state and politics are in a condition of which only professional optimists or hypocrites can claim it has arisen from the will of the citizens."

Prof. Dr. Hans Herbert von Arnim

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas."

Josef Stalin

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Edmund Burke

"Hundreds of billions of dollars are spent every year to control the public mind"

Noam Chomsky

"Even once we have a vaccine and know more about possible immunity, one thing remains clear for us: there must not be a two-tier society of infected and non-infected people. There can be no mandatory vaccination — and there will be none."

Bärbel Bas

"A life that is unwilling to take risks inevitably begins to resemble death."

Robert Pfaller

"It is hardly necessary to point out that the inability of the masses to judge correctly deprives them of any capacity for critical thought—that is, the ability to distinguish truth from error and to form a sound judgment. The judgments adopted by the masses are merely imposed on them and are never the result of careful examination. Many individuals, in this respect, do not rise above the level of the crowd. The ease with which certain opinions become widely accepted is due above all to the inability of most people to form an opinion of their own on the basis of personal reasoning."

Gustave Le Bon

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root"

Henry David Thoreau

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

Martin Luther King