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Robbie Williams | We’re in a post-truth world

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“We’re in a post-truth world where you can’t believe the media, you can’t believe Big Pharma, you can’t believe politicians, you can’t believe what you’re eating, you can’t believe yourself. Since we’ve existed, (if) there is a time where this whole empire could fall, it’s now. Of course these things are going to arise because we can’t trust anybody or anything. And I personally just believe and invest in my wife and my kids and my family. And yeah, I believe in them,” Robbie Williams “Wir leben in einer postfaktischen…

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Dr. Robert Mendelsohn | I no longer believe in Modern Medicine

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“I no longer believe in Modern Medicine. I believe that despite all the super technology and elite bedside manner… the greatest danger to your health is the doctor who practices Modern Medicine. I believe that Modern Medicine’s treatments for disease are seldom effective, and that they’re often more dangerous than the disease they’re designed to treat. I believe more than 90% of Modern Medicine could disappear from the face of the earth–doctors, hospitals, drugs and equipment—and the effect on our health would be immediate & beneficial…..Modern Medicine can’t survive without…

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Richard Haass | The common enemy of humanity is man

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“The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.” Richard Haass | Club of Rome, leading environmental think tank, adviser to the United Nations. “Der gemeinsame Feind der Menschheit ist der…

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Frederick Taylor Gates | the people yield themselves with perfect docility

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“In our dreams we have limitless resources and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our moulding hand. The present education conventions made from our minds and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, editors, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists,…

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Rupert Sheldrake | Science delusion is the belief that science …

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“Science delusion is the belief that science has already fundamentally understood the nature of our reality and only the details need to be completed. I believe this is a seriously flawed view. Most people’s first reaction is one of disbelief and rejection when they first hear this statement. How could there actually be anything more successful than science? It has given us cell phones, computers, airplanes, advanced forms of surgery, and much more. We have huge advantages today through science and through its technical applications. It looks as if there…

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Richard Feynman | iintellectual tyranny in the name of science

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“Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers in the preceding generation (…) When someone says, “Science teaches such and such,” he is using the word incorrectly. Science doesn’t teach anything; experience teaches it. If they say to you, “Science has shown such and such,” you might ask, “How does science show it? How did the scientists find out? How? What? Where?” It should not be “science has shown” but “this experiment, this effect, has…

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Edmund Burke | But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

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“But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.” Edmund Burke “Aber was ist Freiheit ohne Weisheit und ohne Tugend? Sie ist das größte aller möglichen Übel; denn sie ist Torheit, Laster und Wahnsinn, ohne Unterweisung oder Zurückhaltung. Diejenigen, die wissen, was tugendhafte Freiheit ist,…

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Richard David Prech | If I may be completely honest

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“If I may be completely honest, I always think what an accident it was that this woman became Foreign Minister. Under normal conditions, she wouldn’t even have gotten an internship at the Foreign Office. That someone with this moral fervor tries to explain to a class representative of a world power, a cultural nation, what Western values are, defines them as systemic rivals and virtually paints an escalation scenario on the wall, a values-led foreign policy that is in fact a confrontation-led foreign policy, instead of simply baking small rolls…

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Konrad Lorenz | to throw your favorite hypothesis overboard every day

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“We have to acknowledge that most of us love their hypotheses, and, as I once said, it is a painful exercise, but one that keeps us young and healthy like morning gymnastics, to throw your favorite hypothesis overboard every day.” Konrad Lorenz “Die meisten von uns – dessen müssen wir uns bewusst sein – lieben ihre Hypothesen, und es ist, wie ich einmal sagte, eine zwar schmerzhafte, aber jung und gesund erhaltende Turnübung, täglich, gewissermaßen als Frühsport, seine Lieblingshypothese über Bord zu werfen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Carl Gustav Jung | certain views which others find inadmissible

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“As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know. Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.” Carl Gustav Jung “Als Kind fühlte ich mich allein, und ich bin es immer noch, weil ich Dinge weiß und…

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Dr. Markus Krall | Every generation has been exposed to socialist seduction

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“Every generation has been exposed to socialist seduction in ever new disguises. And always a part falls for the totalitarian ideologists. And again and again there is a confrontation between humanity and totalitarianism. Also today. #EcoSocialism” Dr. Markus Krall “Noch jede Generation war der sozialistischen Verführung in immer neuen Verkleidungen ausgesetzt. Und immer fällt ein Teil auf die totalitären Ideologen herein. Und immer wieder kommt es zur Konfrontation zwischen Menschlichkeit und Totalitarismus. Auch heute. #Ökosozialismus” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Lysander Spooner | Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice

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“Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally – perhaps more than equally, because more boldly – rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if intrusted with power.” Lysander Spooner “Mehrheiten als solche bieten keine Garantien für Gerechtigkeit. Sie sind Menschen von derselben Natur wie Minderheiten. Sie haben die gleichen Leidenschaften für Ruhm, Macht und Geld wie Minderheiten; und sie sind ebenso – vielleicht…

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Marcus Aurelius | What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance

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“If anyone can refute me—show me I’m making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective—I’ll gladly change. It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.” Marcus Aurelius | ( Meditationen ) “Wenn mich jemand widerlegen kann – mir zeigen kann, dass ich einen Fehler mache oder die Dinge aus der falschen Perspektive betrachte – werde ich mich gerne ändern. Es geht mir um die Wahrheit, und die Wahrheit hat noch niemandem geschadet. Was uns…

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C.S. Lewis | Of all tyrannies

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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a…

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Jacques Élisée Reclus | the policy of hatred always breeds hatred

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“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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Howard Zinn | Our problem is civil obedience

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“As soon as you say the topic is civil disobedience, you are saying our problem is civil disobedience. That is not our problem…. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. And our problem is that scene in All Quiet on the Western Front where the schoolboys march off dutifully in a line to war. Our problem…

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Coudenhove-Kalergi | Today, democracy is a façade of plutocracy

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“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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Jason Evert | they overlook their power to turn our hearts

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“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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Nikolaus Kopernikus | So far as hypotheses are concerned

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

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

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“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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Julian Assange | Every time we witness an injustice

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

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“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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Johann Gottlieb Fichte | will never rise to idealism

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“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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Bertrand Russel | I should like to say two things

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“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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Machiavelli | He who has once begun to live by robbery

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“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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Henry Louis Mencken | The urge to save humanity

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“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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Rob Schneider | If you turn off the news

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“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…