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Benjamin Franklin | War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is.

“War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself” Benjamin Franklin “Krieg ist, wenn die Regierung dir sagt, wer der Bösewicht ist. Revolution ist, wenn du das selbst entscheidest. Variante: “Krieg ist wenn deine Regierung dir sagt wer der Feind ist-Revolution ist wenn du es selbst rausfinde” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte | will never rise to idealism

“A character flabby by nature, or slackened and bent by mental bondage to learned luxury and vanity, will never rise to idealism.” Johann Gottlieb Fichte “Ein von Natur schlaffer oder durch Geistesknechtschaft gelehrter Luxus und Eitelkeit erschlaffter und gekrümmter Charakter wird sich nie zum Idealismus erheben.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Nicholas Murray Butler | I divide the world into three Classes

“I divide the world into three Classes – The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.” Nicholas Murray Butler “Ich teile die Welt in drei Klassen ein: Die wenigen, die die Dinge geschehen lassen, die vielen, die zusehen, wie etwas geschieht, und die überwältigende Mehrheit, die keine Ahnung hat, was geschieht.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Samuel Edward Konkin III | Every victim of statism

“Every victim of statism has internalized the State to some degree. The IRS’s annual proclamation that the income tax depends on “voluntary compliance” is ironically true. Should the taxpayer completely cut off the blood supply, the vampire State would helplessly perish, its unpaid police and army deserting almost immediately, defanging the Monster.” Samuel Edward Konkin III (New Libertarian Manifesto) “Jedes Opfer der Staatsgewalt hat den Staat bis zu einem gewissen Grad verinnerlicht. Die jährliche Botschaft des Finanzamtes, dass die Einkommenssteuer von der “freiwilligen Einhaltung” abhängt, ist ironischerweise wahr. Sollte der…

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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…

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Rob Schneider | If you turn off the news

“If you turn off the news and talk to your neighbors, you’ll find that our country is far more harmonious than you’re being told” Rob Schneider “Wenn Sie die Nachrichten abschalten und mit Ihren Nachbarn sprechen, werden Sie feststellen, dass unser Land viel harmonischer ist, als man Ihnen weismachen will.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Henry Louis Mencken | The urge to save humanity

“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.” Henry Louis Mencken “Der Drang, die Menschheit zu retten, ist fast immer nur ein Deckmantel für den Drang, sie zu beherrschen. Macht ist das, was alle Messiasse wirklich suchen: nicht die Möglichkeit, zu dienen. Das gilt sogar für die frommen Brüder, die das Evangelium in fremde…

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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…

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Bertrand Russel | I should like to say two things

“I should like to say two things, one intellectual and one moral. The intellectual thing I should want to say is this: When you are studying any matter, or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only what are the facts and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted either by what you wish to believe, or by what you think would have beneficent social effects if it were believed. But look only, and solely, at what are the facts. That is the intellectual thing…

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Florian Willet | sad human truth

“One cause is rooted in the sad human truth that ‘slaves’ usually dream less of what it would be like to be free than of what it would be like to be ‘slave overseers'” Dr. Dr. Florian Willet | (is a German commercial lawyer, economist, communication psychologist and author.) “Eine Ursache liegt in der traurigen menschlichen Wahrheit begründet, dass ‘Sklaven’ üblicherweise weniger davon träumen, wie es wäre frei zu sein, als davon, wie es wäre ‘Sklavenaufseher’ zu sein” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Michael Wendler | We are living at the peak of the time of the false world

“We are living at the peak of the time of the false world. That’s why being real gets you shunned. Why speaking truth gets you scorned and banned. Society is at the tipping point of the height of illussion. It takes serious courage to be real right now. Please be brave!” Michael Wendler | (Supposedly | Telegram post) “Wir leben auf dem Höhepunkt der Zeit in einer falschen Welt. Deshalb wird man gemieden, wenn man echt ist. Deshalb wird man, wenn man die Wahrheit sagt, verachtet und verbannt. Die Gesellschaft…

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Julian Assange | Every time we witness an injustice

“Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love. In a modern economy it is impossible to seal oneself off from injustice. If we have brains or courage, then we are blessed and called on not to frit these qualities away, standing agape at the ideas of others, winning pissing contests, improving the efficiencies of the neocorporate state, or immersing ourselves in obscuranta, but rather to…

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Roland Baader | It is … a naivety that cannot be excused by anything to believe

“It is … a naivety that cannot be excused by anything to believe that a state can be total in the economic sphere without being so at the same time in the political and spiritual sphere ….” … Democracy and socialism are not a tautology (à la Oskar),but radical, mutually exclusive opposites. Democracy is a method of limiting and controlling power. Socialism, on the other hand, always denies the individual freedom of choice of individuals over their economic preferences and life goals (supposedly in favor of the general public, the…

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Charlie Chaplin | As for politics, I’m an anarchist

“As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.” Charlie Chaplin “Was die Politik angeht, bin ich Anarchist. Ich hasse Regierungen, Regeln und Fesseln. Ich kann eingesperrte Tiere nicht ausstehen. Die Menschen müssen frei sein.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Nikolaus Kopernikus | So far as hypotheses are concerned

“So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.” Nikolaus Kopernikus “Denn in der Tat möge, was die Hypothesen betrifft, niemand von der Astronomie irgend etwas Sicheres erwarten, da sie für sich nicht in der Lage ist, dies zu leisten, damit er nicht, wenn er für einen anderen Zweck zustande Gebrachtes als wahr auffaßt, törichter von dieser…

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Jason Evert | they overlook their power to turn our hearts

“When a woman dresses modestly, I can take her seriously as a woman because she doesn’t look like she’s begging for attention. She knows that she’s worth discovering. Such humility is radiant. Unfortunately, many women are so preoccupied with turning men’s heads that they overlook their power to turn our hearts.” Jason Evert “Wenn eine Frau sich bescheiden kleidet, kann ich sie als Frau ernst nehmen, weil sie nicht so aussieht, als würde sie um Aufmerksamkeit betteln. Sie weiß, dass sie es wert ist, entdeckt zu werden. Eine solche Bescheidenheit…

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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…

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Thích Nhất Hạnh | In order to rally people, governments need enemies

“In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.” Thích Nhất Hạnh “Um die Menschen zu mobilisieren, brauchen Regierungen Feinde. Sie wollen, dass wir Angst haben, dass wir hassen, damit wir uns hinter ihnen versammeln. Und wenn sie keinen wirklichen Feind haben, werden sie einen erfinden, um uns zu mobilisieren.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Jacques Élisée Reclus | the policy of hatred always breeds hatred

“History permits the well-founded observation that the policy of hatred always breeds hatred and fatally complicates the general situation, if not leads to final ruin. How many nations perished in this way. Oppressors as well as oppressed! Should we also be doomed? I hope not! And I owe this hope also to the anarchist thinking, which penetrates day by day more and more into the light and renews the human initiative.” Jacques Élisée Reclus was a French geographer and anarchist. (1830-1905) “Die Geschichte lässt die wohlbegründete Feststellung zu, dass die…

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Vladimir Lenin | The way to crush the bourgeoisie

“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.” Vladimir Lenin “Der Weg, die Bourgeoisie zu zerschlagen, besteht darin, sie zwischen den Mühlsteinen von Besteuerung und Inflation zu zermahlen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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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…

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Ignatius von Loyola | those who do not love them at least fear them

“Princes and persons of distinction everywhere must, by all means be so managed that we may have their ear, and that will easily secure their hearts: by which way of proceeding, all persons will become our creatures, and no one will dare to give the Society the least disquiet or opposition . . . Finally, the Society must endeavor to effect this at least, that having gotten the favor and authority of princes, those who do not love them at least fear them.” Ignatius von Loyola | (1491_1556, founder of…

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Fritz Bauer | no to state injustice

“The certainly stirring but decisive lesson of our trials, however, demands a readiness to say an unequivocal no to state injustice.” The trials demand that people renounce private and family advantages and are also prepared to make personal sacrifices if they are required to do or tolerate evil, even if it is the state that makes itself the advocate of evil.” Fritz Bauer, »Im Namen des Volkes. Die strafrechtliche Bewältigung der Vergangenheit«, in: Helmut Hammerschmidt (Hrsg.), Zwanzig Jahre danach. Eine deutsche Bilanz 1945-1965. München u.a.: Desch Verlag, 1965, S. 314….

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Haris Silajdžić | if you kill a quarter-of-a-million people, you’re invited to a peace conference

“If you kill one person, you’re prosecuted. If you kill ten people, you’re famous; if you kill a quarter-of-a-million people, you’re invited to a peace conference.” Haris Silajdžić | ist ein bosnischer Politiker und Akademiker “Wenn Sie einen Menschen töten, werden Sie strafrechtlich verfolgt. Wenn Sie zehn Menschen töten, sind Sie berühmt; wenn Sie eine Viertelmillion Menschen töten, werden Sie zu einer Friedenskonferenz eingeladen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Murray N. Rothbard | The State is that organization in society

“The State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion.” Murray N. Rothbard “Der Staat ist diejenige Organisation in der Gesellschaft, die versucht, das Monopol der Anwendung von Zwang und Gewalt in einem bestimmten territorialen Bereich aufrechtzuerhalten; insbesondere ist er die einzige Organisation in der Gesellschaft, die ihre Einnahmen nicht…

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Yuval Noah Harari | “I think maybe in a couple of decades when people look back

“I think maybe in a couple of decades when people look back, the thing they will remember from the Covid crisis is this is the moment when everything went digital and this was the moment when everything became monitored, that we agreed to be surveilled all the time, not just in authoritarian regimes, but even in democracies and maybe most importantly, this was the moment when surveillance started going under the skin, because really we haven’t seen anything yet. I think that the big process that’s happening right now, the…