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John Edgar Hoover | a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists

“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 | Gründer und Ex-Direktor des FBI “Der Einzelne hat das Problem, dass er mit einer so monströsen Verschwörung konfrontiert ist, dass er nicht glauben kann, dass sie existiert….

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Ayn Rand | You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences

„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 Sometimes paraphrased as:…

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Ayn Rand | He is free to evade reality

“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 “Es steht ihm frei, sich der Realität zu entziehen, es steht ihm frei, seinen Verstand zu verwirren und blindlings jeden Weg zu beschreiten, der ihm gefällt, aber es steht ihm nicht frei, dem Abgrund zu vermeiden, den er nicht sehen will.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Arno Gruen | While those who can no longer bear the loss of human values

“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 | war ein deutsch-schweizerischer Schriftsteller, Psychologe und Psychoanalytiker. Nach der Flucht aus Nazideutschland 1936 verbrachte er über 40 Jahre in den USA. “Während jene als verrückt gelten, die den Verlust der menschlichen Werte nicht mehr ertragen, wird denen Normalität bescheinigt, die sich von ihren menschlichen Wurzeln getrennt haben.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Thomas von Aquin | The greatest kindness

“The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.” Thomas von Aquin “Die größte Freundlichkeit, die man einem Menschen erweisen kann, besteht darin, ihn vom Irrtum zur Wahrheit zu führen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Daniel Dennett | There’s simply no polite way

“There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.” Daniel Dennett “Es gibt einfach keine höflichere Art, Menschen zu sagen, dass sie ihr Leben einer Illusion gewidmet haben.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Bill Hicks | a productive member of society

“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 “Wenn man eine Gesellschaft…

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Friedrich Nietzsche | We live in a system

“We live in a system in which one must either be a wheel or get crushed by the wheels.” Friedrich Nietzsche „Wir leben in einem System, in dem man entweder Rad sein muß oder unter die Räder gerät.“ Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Edward Osborne Wilson | We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom

“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 “Wir ertrinken in Informationen, während wir nach Weisheit hungern. Die Welt wird in Zukunft von Synthesizern regiert werden, von Menschen, die in der Lage sind, die richtigen Informationen zur richtigen Zeit zusammenzustellen, kritisch darüber nachzudenken und wichtige Entscheidungen mit Bedacht zu treffen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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William Egan Colby | The CIA controls everyone of significance in the major media

“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 | war ein US-amerikanischer Regierungsbeamter und von September 1973 bis Januar 1976 Direktor der Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). “Die CIA kontrolliert jeden, der in den großen Medien von Bedeutung ist, wo sie etwa 30 % ihres Budgets für die verdeckten Mitarbeiter und Programme der Presse ausgibt.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Erich Fromm | The holders of authority and those who take advantage of it

“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 “Die Inhaber…

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Søren Kierkegaard | There are two ways to be fooled

“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 “Es gibt zwei Möglichkeiten, sich täuschen zu lassen. Man soll glauben, was nicht wahr ist; Das andere ist, sich zu weigern zu glauben, was wahr ist.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Karl Jaspers | Where is the Federal Republic headed?

“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…

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Dieter Hallervorden | ‘gendern’ is absurd and rather supervised speech

“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 | Der Kabarettist “Die deutsche Sprache als Kulturgut gehört uns allen. Keiner hat ein Recht, darin herumzupfuschen. Ich frage mich, wie eine politisch motivierte Minderheit dazu kommt, einer Mehrheit vorschreiben zu wollen, wie wir…

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Caitlin Johnstone | The empire still fears the public

“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 | Autorin „Das Imperium hat immer noch Angst vor der Öffentlichkeit. Wenn es das nicht täte, würde es sich nicht die Mühe machen, so viel Propaganda im Vorfeld all seiner verderblichen Aktionen zu verbreiten – es würde einfach…

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Woody Harrelson | Of course, we live in a completely corrupted world

“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.” Woodrow Tracy „Woody“ Harrelson ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler “Natürlich leben wir in einer völlig korrupten Welt, in der jede Regierung nur…

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Thomas Jefferson | When government fears the people

“When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” Thomas Jefferson “Wenn die Regierung das Volk fürchtet, gibt es Freiheit. Wenn das Volk die Regierung fürchtet, gibt es Tyrannei.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Lemmy Kilmister | They feed you the stuff every day on TV

„They feed you the stuff every day on TV and you think it’s all different, don’t you? All the time, right? And it’s always the same. Jesus i can’t go on anywhere you know“ Lemmy Kilmister (Ian Fraser Kilmister | Gründer der Rockband Motörhead sowie deren Sänger und Bassist.) „Sie füttern dich jeden Tag mit diesem Zeugs im Fernsehen und du denkst, es ist alles anders, nicht wahr? Die ganze Zeit, richtig? Und es ist immer das Gleiche. Ich halte das nicht mehr aus!“ Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Adyashanti | Enlightenment is a destructive process

“Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.” Adyashant “Erleuchtung ist ein destruktiver Prozess. Dieser hat nichts mit mit Besserwerden oder Glücklicherwerden zu tun. Erleuchtung ist das Wegbrechen von Unwahrheit. Das Durchschauen der Fassade. Es ist das komplette Ausmerzen von allem, das wir für wahr gehalten haben.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Vince Ebert | Political correctness

“Political correctness has now reached a level in our society that I see as highly questionable. It starts with the deletion of more and more postings in the social media. Postings, mind you, with content that is clearly not punishable or otherwise legally actionable. The mere fact that a certain group might feel offended by a text is enough. More and more companies and corporations are joining this unfortunate trend and issuing internal memos about required language rules or how to deal with certain topics, the disregard of which can…

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Karl Kraus | How is the world ruled and led to war?

“How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.” Karl Kraus | (1874 – 1936), österreichischer Schriftsteller, Publizist, Satiriker, Lyriker, Aphoristiker und Dramatiker Quelle: Kraus, Nachts. Aphorismen, 1924. V. 1915 “Wie wird die Welt regiert und in den Krieg geführt? Diplomaten belügen Journalisten und glauben es, wenn sie’s lesen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Bhagavad-Gita | With the destruction of the family

“With the destruction of the family, the spiritual traditions of the family perish forever; when spiritual values are destroyed, then unrighteousness predominates the entire society.” Bhagavad-Gita “Mit der Zerstörung der Familie gehen die spirituellen Traditionen der Familie für immer zugrunde; wenn spirituelle Werte zerstört werden, dann überwiegt Ungerechtigkeit die gesamte Gesellschaft.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Noam Chomsky | Therefore it’s important to distract them

“The bewildered herd is a problem. We’ve got to prevent their roar and trampling. We’ve got to distract them. They should be watching the Superbowl or sitcoms or violent movies. Every once in a while you call on them to chant meaningless slogans like “Support our troops.” You’ve got to keep them pretty scared, because unless they’re properly scared and frightened of all kinds of devils that are going to destroy them from outside or inside or somewhere, they may start to think, which is very dangerous, because they’re not…

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Yuval Noah Harari | to gain control over the world

“I mean science, as an institution, is interested in gaining the power — to gain control over the world — to be able to gain control over diseases, over the human body, over the environment, over rivers and animals and forests. You have to submit a grant to somebody to fund, it all comes down to money, in many cases. It’s also an institution- If you’re a freelance scientist, you just explore the truth. Okay. But in an institution, a university, you need money to finance so you submit a…

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Gore Vidal | As societies grow decadent

“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.” Gore Vidal, Imperiales Amerika, 2004 “Wenn Gesellschaften dekadent werden, wird auch die Sprache dekadent. Worte werden benutzt, um Taten zu verschleiern, nicht um sie zu erhellen: Man befreit eine Stadt, indem man sie zerstört. Worte werden benutzt, um zu verwirren, damit die Menschen bei Wahlen feierlich gegen ihre…

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Niccolò Machiavelli | majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances

“For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.” Niccolò Machiavelli “Denn die große Mehrheit der Menschen begnügt sich mit dem Schein, als ob er die Wirklichkeit wäre, und lässt sich oft mehr von den scheinbaren als von den wirklichen Dingen beeinflussen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Leonard E. Feeney | Having a television in your home

“Having a television in your home is like having a Jew in your living room.” Fr. Leonard E. Feeney (Jesuit) from “The Point” magazine, 1957. “Einen Fernseher zu Hause zu haben, ist wie einen Juden im Wohnzimmer zu haben.” Leonard E. Feeney (Jesuit) aus der Zeitschrift „The Point“, 1957 Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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H. P. Lovecraft | It is not a true civilization

“It is not a true civilization, and has nothing in it to satisfy a mature and fully developed human mind. It is attuned to the mentality of the galley-slave and the moron, and crushes relentlessly with disapproval, ridicule, and economic annihilation any sign of actually independent thought and civilised feeling whith chances to rise above its sodden level. It is a treadmill, squirrel-trap culture – drugged and frenzied with the hashish of industrial servitude and material luxury. It is wholly a material body-culture, and its symbol is the tiled bathroom…

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General Aladeen | Why are you guys so anti-dictators?

“Why are you guys so anti-dictators? Imagine if America was a dictatorship. You could let 1% of the people have all the nation’s wealth. You could help your rich friends get richer by cutting their taxes. And bailing them out when they gamble and lose. You could ignore the needs of the poor for health care and education. Your media would appear free, but would secretly be controlled by one person and his family. You could wiretap phones. You could torture foreign prisoners. You could have rigged elections. You could…

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George Orwell | These people don’t see that

“These people don’t see that if you encourage totalitarian methods, the time may come when they will be used against you instead of for you.” George Orwell “Die Menschen erkennen nicht, dass bei Befürwortung totalitärer Methoden die Zeit kommen kann, in denen sie gegen statt für einen eingesetzt werden.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…