Volker Pispers | What do you think would be going on here
"What do you think would be going on here, if more people realized what was going on?"
Volker Pispers
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W. Winckler | As an engineer of many years standing
in W. Winckler"As an engineer of many years standing, I saw that this absurd allowance is only permitted in school books. No engineer would dream of allowing anything of the kind. I have projected many miles of railways and many more of canals and the allowance has not even been thought of, much less allowed for. This allowance for curvature means this - that it is 8” for the first mile of a canal, and increasing at the ratio by the square of the distance in miles; thus a small navigable canal for boats, say 30 miles long, will have, by the above rule an allowance for curvature of 600 feet. Think of that and then please credit engineers as not being quite such fools. Nothing of the sort is allowed. We no more think of allowing 600 feet for a line of 30 miles of railway or canal, than of wasting our time trying to square the circle"
W. Winckler
Bertolt Brecht | Madness becomes invisible
in Bertolt Brecht"Madness becomes invisible when it has reached sufficiently large dimensions."
Bertolt Brecht
Dave Smith | basic human liberties
in Dave Smith"If you believe that the most basic human liberties ought to be contingent on taking a product from a giant pharmaceutical company then you are not liberal or left wing. You’re not a conservative or patriotic. There is only one word to describe you and that is Fascist."
Dave Smith
David Wardlaw Scott | Children are taught in their geography books, when too young to apprehend aright the meaning of such things
in David Wardlow Scott"Children are taught in their geography books, when too young to apprehend aright the meaning of such things, that the world is a great globe revolving around the Sun, and the story is repeated continuously, year by year, till they reach maturity, at which time they generally become so absorbed in other matters as to be indifferent as to whether the teaching be true or not, and, as they hear of nobody contradicting it, they presume that it must be the correct thing, if not to believe at least to receive it as a fact. They thus tacitly give their assent to a theory which, if it had first been presented to them at what are called ‘years of discretion,’ they would at once have rejected. The consequences of evil-teaching, whether in religion or in science, are far more disastrous than is generally supposed, especially in a luxurious laisser faire age like our own. The intellect becomes weakened and the conscience seared."
David Wardlaw Scott
Carl Sagan | The bamboozle has captured us
in Carl Sagan"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
Will Spencer | an alcoholic trying to drink yourself sober
in Will Spencer"If your answer to every failure of government is more government, you are like an alcoholic trying to drink yourself sober."
Will Spencer
Gustave Le Bon | The masses have never thirsted after truth
in Gustave Le Bon"The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will."
Gustave Le Bon
Jesuit Guy Consolmagno | Aliens for their salvation
in Guy Consolmagno"Very soon the nations will look to Aliens for their salvation."
"contemporary societies will soon see extraterrestrials as the saviors of mankind"
"Jesus might be the son of a star child."
Jesuit Guy Consolmagno
Jesuit Pater Giuseppe Tanzella Nitti | information coming from another world
in Giuseppe Tanzella Nitti"Very soon we will not have to deny our Christian faith...but there is information coming from another world, and once it is confirmed it is going to require a re-reading of the Gospel as we know it."
Jesuit Father Giuseppe Tanzella Nitti
Michio Kaku | in my field, uses the so-called Scientific Method
in Michio Kaku"In Science, we always say that you make observations you have a theory you make more observations and it’s a very very tedious process… WRONG! Nobody that I know of in my field, uses the so-called Scientific Method. In our field, it’s by the seat of your pants, it’s leaps of logic, it’s GUESSWORK."
Dr. Michio Kaku
Papst Pius XII | Big Bang – Creation – Science
in Papst Pius XII"In fact, it seems that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to that primordial 'Fiat lux' Let there be light uttered at the moment when, along with matter, there burst forth from nothing a sea of light and radiation, while the particles of the chemical elements split and formed into millions of galaxies ... Hence, creation took place in time, therefore, there is a Creator, God exists. Although it is neither explicit nor complete, this is the reply we were awaiting from science, and which the present human generation is awaiting from it."
Papst Pius XII
Nikolas Schreck | Satanism is a religion for the elite
in Nikolas Schreck“Satanism is a religion for the elite, it is a religion for leaders, it's a religion for competent people, it's not a religion for anyone who wants to be a Satanist”
Nikolas Schreck
Neil deGrasse Tyson | I’m a fan of what Mark Twain said
in Neil deGrasse Tyson"I'm a fan of what Mark Twain said, he said; Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson | let the dark lord Satan show you the way
in Neil deGrasse Tyson"Some have asked me where scientists turn after science has yielded no clear solution. I tell these people what my grandfather Charles Darwin told me: roll back your eyes, contort your body, and let the dark lord Satan show you the way"
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Smedley Darlington Butler | I might have given Al Capone a few hints
in Smedley Darlington Butler"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."
Smedley Darlington Butler
Charles T. Tart | If it is not in the media… it did not happen
in Charles T. Tart"If it is not in the media... it did not happen. If it did not happen, but is in the media... we believe it has happened."
Charles T. Tart
Richard Nixon | The American people don’t believe anything until they see it on television
in Richard Nixon"The American people don't believe anything until they see it on television."
Richard Nixon
Erich Limpach | believing yesterday’s lies as today’s truths
in Erich Limpach"If people continue to allow themselves to be talked into believing yesterday's lies as today's truths, then tomorrow's whip will make them painfully aware, too late, of the dangers that laziness of thought has in its wake."
Erich Limpach
Billy Corgan | the old deal-with-the devil stuff
in Billy Corgan"The problem is that there’s not enough money in music as a business model. Where in television and vis-a-vis the advertisers and movies, there’s so much money that the controlling forces still circle around the stars in the right way, stars are taken care of better in those industries. In the music industry it’s still very much this exploitative thing, it’s still very much people signing their lives away, the old deal-with-the devil stuff. That is still going on, it’s unbelievable in this day-and-age that this is still going on."
Billy Corgan
Aldous Huxley | the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach
in Aldous Huxley"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach."
Aldous Huxley
Albert Jay Nock | The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social
in Albert Jay Nock"The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing."
Albert Jay Nock
Aleister Crowley | to delight in dirty and disgusting debauches
in Aleister Crowley"I have exposed myself to every form of disease, accident, and violence. I have driven myself to delight in dirty and disgusting debauches, and to devour human excrement and human flesh. I have mastered every mode of my mind and made myself a mortality more severe than any other in the world. 1000 years from now the world will be sitting in the sunset of Crowlianity"
Aleister Crowley
Big Manni | You have to understand something elementary
in Big Manni"You have to understand something elementary, people don't believe what they see, they see what they BELIEVE"
„Big Manni“