Friedrich Nietzsche | for what one has forbidden so far as a matter of principle has always been — truth alone.
"for what one has forbidden so far as a matter of principle has always been—truth alone."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Milan Kundera | The first step in liquidating a people
in Milan Kundera"The first step in liquidating a people, is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster."
Milan Kundera
Charles MacKay | simultaneously impressed with one delusion
in Charles MacKay"We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first."
Charles MacKay
ZUBY | One of the biggest problems with college degrees
in ZUBY"One of the biggest problems with college degrees is they've made a lot of people think they are much smarter than they truly are. This arrogance and smugness makes them dumber because they think they're too smart to receive new information from anybody with fewer 'credentials'."
ZUBY
Russel Brand | the mainstream media is not your friend
in Russel Brand"I’ve made a lot of mistakes, I’ve been wrong many times but I’m beginning to think I’m right about this: the mainstream media is not your friend, the culture is not your friend, the government is not your friend, big business is not your friend. They are operating collegiately in unison to create a set of systems that are beneficial to them and disadvantage you."
Russel Brand
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce | ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege
in Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce"ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice."
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
Terence McKenna | We are at war with our own nature
in Terence McKenna"We are, literally, a schizophrenic species. We are at war with our own nature"
Terence McKenna
Fjodor Dostojewski | The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping
in Fjodor Dostojewski"The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison."
Fjodor Dostojewski
Don Pettit | The only limit to human future is in our own imagination
in Don Pettit"I'd go to the moon in a Nanosecond, but the Problem is that we no longer have that technology to do that anymore, we used to have it, but we destroyed it and it's a painful process to build it back again, but going to Mars should be one of the next series of steps that humans do. The first step should be going back to the Moon for a number of technical reasons and exploration reasons. And then after that Mars, maybe high orbit in Venus atmosphere maybe going to Europa. There's all kinds of targets to go to, places of interest in our solar system. The only limit to human future is in our own imagination."
Don Pettit (Nasa „Astronaut“)
Barack Obama | Ordinary men and women are too small-minded
in Barack Obama"Ordinary men and women are too small-minded to govern their own affairs, that order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign."
Barack Obama
George Bernard Shaw | We want a few mad people now
in George Bernard Shaw"We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!"
George Bernard Shaw
Dr Mike Yeadon | have taken as fact that viruses exist without ever reviewing the original papers
in Dr Mike Yeadon"I’m aware this two page backgrounder & experimental proposal aims to show whether or not viruses exist, focussing on SARS-CoV-2. I’m a signatory because, having given a lot of thought to the entire proposition, I now believe it’s yet another of the lies to which we’ve been subject. In the case of scientists, even those in commercial drug discovery, have taken as fact that viruses exist without ever reviewing the original papers."
Dr Mike Yeadon
John Edgar Hoover | a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists
in John Edgar Hoover"The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent."
John Edgar Hoover
Ayn Rand | You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences
in Ayn Rand„Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive by any random means, as a parasite, a moocher or a looter, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment—so he is free to seek his happiness in any irrational fraud, any whim, any delusion, any mindless escape from reality, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment nor to escape the consequences.“
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand | He is free to evade reality
in Ayn Rand"He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see."
Ayn Rand
Arno Gruen | While those who can no longer bear the loss of human values
in Arno Gruen"While those who can no longer bear the loss of human values are considered insane, those who have separated from their human roots are certified normal."
Arno Gruen
Thomas von Aquin | The greatest kindness
in Thomas von Aquin"The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth."
Thomas von Aquin
Daniel Dennett | There’s simply no polite way
in Daniel Dennett"There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion."
Daniel Dennett
Bill Hicks | a productive member of society
in Bill Hicks"If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in."
Bill Hicks
Friedrich Nietzsche | We live in a system
in Friedrich Nietzsche"We live in a system in which one must either be a wheel or get crushed by the wheels."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Edward Osborne Wilson | We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom
in Edward Osborne Wilson"We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely."
Edward Osborne Wilson
William Egan Colby | The CIA controls everyone of significance in the major media
in William Egan Colby"The CIA controls everyone of significance in the major media, where it spent about 30% of its budget on covered press personnel and programs"
William Egan Colby
Erich Fromm | The holders of authority and those who take advantage of it
in Erich Fromm"The holders of authority and those who take advantage of it must convince people of this fiction and put to sleep their realistic, that is to say, critical, faculty of thought. Every thinking person knows the methods of propaganda, methods by which critical judgment is destroyed and the mind is lulled until it submits to clichés that stultify people because they make them dependent, depriving them of the ability to trust their eyes and their judgment. This function, in which they believe, blinds them to reality."
Erich Fromm
Søren Kierkegaard | There are two ways to be fooled
in Søren Kierkegaard"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true."
Søren Kierkegaard
Karl Jaspers | Where is the Federal Republic headed?
in Karl Jaspers"Every four years it elects the Bundestag. The lists or persons submitted to it by the parties are already elected beforehand by the parties. The process of this hidden preliminary election, which is the actual election, is convoluted; the names for the constituency lists and the state lists are not drawn up in the same way. But it is always the party committees, never the people, who would be involved in this decisive beginning. One must be a party member in order to participate somewhere in this election and to be able to be set up. Even those who are party members, as such, have little effect in the nominations. The decisive factor is the party hierarchy and bureaucracy.[...] Even the elections are not really elections, but acclamations to the party oligarchy. [....] The parties, which should by no means be the state, make themselves, withdrawn from the life of the people, the state [....] The governance of the state is in the hands of the party oligarchy [....] Their position, not limited by any tension to other power, seduces [....] the parties to want to occupy the seats by their own people. This is the reward for party work, the spoils of victory after the electoral battle [....]"
Karl Jaspers
Dieter Hallervorden | ‘gendern’ is absurd and rather supervised speech
in Dieter Hallervorden"The German language as a cultural asset belongs to all of us. No one has a right to tamper with it. I wonder how a politically motivated minority comes to want to dictate to a majority how we want to express ourselves in the future. This unspeakable ,'gendern' is absurd and rather supervised speech."
Dieter Hallervorden
Caitlin Johnstone | The empire still fears the public
in Caitlin Johnstone"The empire still fears the public. If it didn't it wouldn't bother rolling out so much propaganda ahead of all its depraved actions—it would just act. They work so hard to manufacture our consent because they're still afraid of what we'll do to them if we decide we don't consent."
Caitlin Johnstone
Woody Harrelson | Of course, we live in a completely corrupted world
in Woodrow Tracy Harrelson, Woody Harrelson"Of course, we live in a completely corrupted world where every government is just a bunch of businessmen working for a bunch of bigger businessmen and none of them give a shit about the people. The sad fact is no one knows how to change it, because no one knows how to take on the corporations. So I guess we’re stuck with this system until the oil runs out."
Woody Harrelson