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Machiavelli | All power is robbery

“All power is robbery and all its justification is pure ideology.” Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli ( 3. Mai 1469 – – 21. Juni 1527) is a statesman, philosopher and theorist of politics, history and war. “Alle Macht ist Raub und all ihre Rechtfertigung pure Ideologie.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Peter Hübner | It’s an industrial arrangement based on the idea of mass filling

“I am always irritated by the fact that they are not really schools at all. We don’t see places for living and learning, but barracks. Along long corridors, one room stands at attention next to the other. All the classrooms have the same shape. The children are crammed in, all facing the blackboard. The teacher writes, the children copy. It’s an industrial arrangement based on the idea of mass filling.” Peter Hübner | Architect “Mich irritiert stets, dass sie in Wahrheit gar keine Schulen sind. Wir sehen keine Orte für…

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Prof. Rainer Mausfeld | The public debating chamber is at the heart of democracy

“The public debating chamber is at the heart of democracy. However, it can only fulfill its function if it is intact in the sense you mentioned. Since the media constitute the public debate space in the first place, they must be designed in such a way that they do not distort it in favor of powerful interest groups. By their very nature, corporate media cannot perform such a task, as their integration into economic power structures almost inevitably makes them an instrument with which powerful economic lobby groups can covertly…

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George Orwell | abolition of private property

“After the revolutionary period of the fifties and sixties, society regrouped itself, as always, into High, Middle, and Low. But the new High group, unlike all its forerunners, did not act upon instinct but knew what was needed to safeguard its position. It had long been realized that the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism. Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly. The so-called ’abolition of private property’ which took place in the middle years of the century meant, in effect, the concentration of…

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George Carlin | Politicians

“Now, there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our…

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Wolfgang Reinhard | But it is the central ritual of the democratic theater state

“Politicians who want to stay in power have to keep the voters happy, even though the election itself is only symbolic. But it is the central ritual of the democratic theater state. After all, it is no longer about substantive decisions, but only about the confirmation or replacement of political figureheads, who are legitimized by the fact that citizens are allowed to perform this ritual. This symbolically reinforces the fiction of popular sovereignty on which modern constitutional states are founded. In this way, and not through substantive decisions, elections contribute…

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Emma Goldman | do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have?

“Men and women … do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in order to sustain the ruling class, your masters. Like naïve children you put your trust in your political leaders. You make it possible for them to creep into your confidence, only to have them betray you to the first bidder. But even where there is no direct betrayal, the labour politicians make common cause with your enemies to keep you in leash, to prevent your…

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Michael Rivero | Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker

“Most people prefer to believe their leaders are just and fair even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen acknowledges that the government under which they live is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it. To take action in the face of a corrupt government entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to surrender one’s self-image of standing for principles. Most people do not have the courage to…

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Anita Hofmann | by practicing a state on a small scale, namely at school

“This is about: What is actually best for children and young people? And how do they get their education and how do they become citizens? Because that is also the goal of our schooling, that I am an educated person who can also fulfill my civic duties and for that I need appropriate behavior and I learn that not only explicitly through knowledge, but also implicitly by practicing a state on a small scale, namely at school.” Anita Hofmann | Head of the State School Office for the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district…

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Lysander Spooner | agents of the people

“If a man is my servant, agent, or attorney, I necessarily make myself responsible for all his acts done within the limits of the power I have intrusted to him. If I have intrusted him, as my agent, with either absolute power, or any power at all, over the persons or properties of other men than myself, I thereby necessarily make myself responsible to those other persons for any injuries he may do them, so long as he acts within the limits of the power I have granted him. But…

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Charles H. Spurgeon | Es wird eine Zeit kommen

“A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats.” Charles H. Spurgeon “Es wird eine Zeit kommen, in der die Kirche keine Hirten mehr hat, die die Schafe füttern, sondern Clowns, die die Ziegen unterhalten.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Max Weber | All political entities are violent entities

“All political entities are violent entities. But the type and degree of the use or threat of external violence against other similar entities plays a specific role in the structure and fate of political communities. Not every political entity is equally “expansive” in the sense that it seeks power externally, i.e., making force available for the purpose of acquiring political power over other territories and communities, whether in the form of incorporation or [of] dependency. The political entities are thus, to varying degrees, outwardly turned entities of violence.” Max Weber…

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Konrad Lorenz | To the extent that handicrafts are wiped out by the competition of industry

“To the extent that handicrafts are wiped out by the competition of industry, and to the extent that the smaller entrepreneur, including the farmer, becomes unable to exist, we are all quite simply forced to submit in our way of life to the wishes of the large producers, to eat the food and put on the clothes they think good for us, and what is worst of all, by virtue of the conditioning bestowed upon us, we do not even realize that they are doing so.” Konrad Lorenz “In dem…

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John Henry Mackay | I am an Anarchist

“Ever reviled, accursed, ne’er understood, Thou art the grisly terror of our age. “Wreck of all order,” cry the multitude, “Art thou, and war and murder’s endless rage.” O, let them cry. To them that ne’er have striven The truth that lies behind a word to find, To them the word’s right meaning was not given. They shall continue blind among the blind. But thou, O word, so clear, so strong, so pure, Thou sayest all which I for goal have taken. I give thee to the future! Thine secure…

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Murray Rothbard | not for equal freedom but for equal slavery

“The egalitarians are arguing not for equal freedom but for equal slavery or equal robbery in the name of “fairness.” Murray Rothbard “Die Egalitären argumentieren nicht für gleiche Freiheit, sondern für gleiche Sklaverei, bzw. gleichen Raub, im Namen der „Fairness” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Smedley Darlington Butler | Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys

“Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys who were sent out to die. The was the “war to end wars.” This was the “war to make the world safe for democracy.” No one told them that dollars and cents were the real reason. No one mentioned to them, as they marched away, that their going and their dying would mean huge war profits. No one told these American soldiers that they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the ships…

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Prof. Reiner Mausfeld | A ‘war against X’ decreed from above

“A ‘war against X’ decreed from above – be it against ‘terror’ or against a pandemic – is never about what is declared to be fought. All that is sold here as a war against a threat must not be successful at all, because its success for the economic and political centers of power lies precisely in not being successful and in remaining as a means of generating fear and securing domination.” Prof. Reiner Mausfeld “Bei einem von oben verordnetem ‚Krieg gegen X‘ – sei es gegen den ‚Terror‘ oder…

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Dr. Robert Malone | Techno-fascism for the rest of their natural lives as serfs

“They are coming from a belief system that says that nation-state is an obsolete idea and we have to have a one-world government that is basically a fusion of the interests of corporations and politics, global politics. And we’ve got to start by finding out who they are, voting them out of office, making sure they are not part of our governments. Two of the more prominent ones, are Governors Gavin Newsom of California and Jay Inslee of Washington. Both are WEF traitors working on behalf of foreign globalist interests,…

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Carl Sagan | The bamboozle has captured us

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” Carl Sagan “Eine der traurigsten Lehren der Geschichte ist diese: Wenn wir lange genug beschwindelt wurden, neigen wir dazu, jeden Beweis des Schwindels abzulehnen. Wir…

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George Orwell | Until they become conscious

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” George Orwell “Bis sie sich bewusst geworden sind, werden sie niemals rebellieren, und bis sie rebelliert haben, können sie sich nicht bewusst werden.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Walter Rathenau | Approximately 300 men determine the fate of this world

“Approximately 300 men that know each other and that appoint their successors themselves determine the fate of this world. Their power exists in absolute confidentiality.” Walter Rathenau | Deutscher Staatsmann, einer der Männer, die es im Leben zu großem Einfluß gebracht haben, bekannte in der Neuen Wiener Presse vom 24. Dezember 1912 „300 Männer, die sich untereinander kennen und die selbst ihre Nachfolger ernennen, sind es, die die Geschicke der Welt leiten. Der Grund ihrer Macht liegt in ihrer absoluten Geheimhaltung.“ Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Gerald G. Grosz | We just live in an open psychiatric ward

“We just live in an open psychiatric ward, the most serious cases sit on the government bench, the offspring stick on the streets or smear pictures. All of them would probably be better off in the padded cell and yes the world would be saved.” Gerald G. Grosz “Wir leben eben in einer offenen Psychiatrie, die schwersten Fälle sitzen auf der Regierungsbank, der Nachwuchs klebt auf den Straßen oder beschmiert Bilder. Alle wären wohl besser in der Gummizelle aufgehoben und ja die Welt wäre gerettet” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Ludwig von Mises | Nothing can make a demagogue more popular today

“Nothing can make a demagogue more popular today than when he repeatedly calls for sharp taxes against the rich […] Wealth levies and high income taxes on the larger incomes are quite extraordinarily popular with the masses who do not have to pay them.” Ludwig von Mises | Ein Lexikon: Von A wie Anarchismus bis Z wie Zwang “Nichts kann einen Demagogen heute volkstümlicher machen, als wenn er immer wieder scharfe Steuern gegen die Reichen fordert […] Vermögensabgaben und hohe Einkommensteuern für die größeren Einkommen sind bei den Massen, die…

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Tony Benn | I think there are two ways in which people are controlled

“I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all, frighten people, and secondly, demoralise them. [….]An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern. And I think there’s an element in the thinking of some people… ‘We don’t want people to be educated, healthy and confident, because they would get out of control.” Anthony „Tony“ Neil Wedgwood Benn | war ein britischer Politiker der Labour Party. Er gehörte dem House of Commons von 1950 bis 1960 an und erneut von 1963 bis 2000, also…

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Edwin Grant Conklin | Dictators seek to control men’s thoughts

“Dictators seek to control men’s thoughts as well as their bodies and so they attempt to dictate science, education and religion. But dictated education is usually propaganda, dictated history is often mythology, dictated science is pseudo-science.” Edwin Grant Conklin | From Address as retiring president before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Indianapolis (27 Dec 1937). Published in ‘Science and Ethics’, Science (31 Dec 1937), 86, No. 2244, 601. “Diktatoren wollen die Gedanken der Menschen ebenso kontrollieren wie ihre Körper und versuchen daher, Wissenschaft, Bildung und Religion zu…

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Doris Lessing | “You are in the process of being indoctrinated”

“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: “You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The most powerful figment of the imagination is public opinion

“The most powerful figment of the imagination is public opinion: no one knows exactly who makes it, no one has ever met it personally, but everyone lets themselves be tyrannized by it!” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Das mächtigste Hirngespinst ist die öffentliche Meinung: Niemand weiß genau, wer sie macht, niemand hat sie je persönlich kennengelernt, aber alle lassen sich von ihr tyrannisieren!” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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James Paul Warburg | We shall have world government

“We shall have world government, whether or not we like it. The question is only whether world government will be achieved by consent or by conquest.” James Paul Warburg (1868-1932), deutsch-amerikanischer Bankier, Architekt des Federal Reserve Systems „Wir werden eine Weltregierung haben, ob wir es wollen oder nicht. Die einzige Frage ist, ob die Weltregierung durch Eroberung oder durch die Zustimmung der Menschen erreicht werden wird.“ Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Edward Bernays | If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind

“If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.” Edward Bernays “Wenn wir den Mechanismus und die Motive des Gruppendenkens verstehen, ist es jetzt möglich, die Massen nach unserem Willen zu kontrollieren und zu reglementieren, ohne dass sie es merken.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…