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Anton Szandor LaVey | Today’s Satanic bands

„Today’s Satanic bands are the vehicle of choice for millions of young people. If they encourage a study of real Satanism, I’m all for them. Now, there are many influential groups who know Satanism and aren’t afraid to espouse it—bands like King Diamond, The Electric Hellfire Club, Acheron, Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails—the list is long. I have no use for the bands who take the Devil’s name, but are too chickenshit to play the Devil’s game. They’re usually too stupid to present any argument concerning Satanism. Instead, when put to the question, they cop out by answering: “Yeah—I was into that shit but not now. Don’t ask me about it because there’s no point in talking about it.” There are Satanic bands and there are “Satanic” bands.“

Anton Szandor LaVey

Jefferson Starship | Our music is intended

"Our music is intended to broaden the generation gap and alienate children from their parents"

Jefferson Starship

Conway Twitty | we are contributing to the moral decline in America

"As a country artist, I'm not proud of a lot of the things in my field. There is no doubt in my mind that we are contributing to the moral decline in America"

Conway Twitty

Marilyn Manson | we can give ’em our message

"I don't know if anyone has really understood what we're trying to do . . . to lure people in. Once we've got 'em we can give 'em our message."

Marilyn Manson

Billy Joel | subversive sexual revolution

"It made people feel profane. All those things they were saying about rock and roll, it's going to subvert our youth, it's going to make them to want to have sex, it will make them crazy, they were right.

Billy Joel

Napoleon Bonaparte | There is no more good-natured, but also no more gullible people

"There is no more good-natured, but also no more gullible people than the Germans. No lie can be conceived treacherous enough, the Germans believe it. They follow a slogan which was given to them, to act against their own countrymen, rather than the real enemies of their country."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Jean-Claude Juncker | step by step until there is no turning back

"We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back."

Jean-Claude Juncker

Hannah Arendt | The real goal of totalitarian ideology

“The real goal of totalitarian ideology is not the transformation of the external conditions of human existence and not the revolutionary reorganization of the social order, but the transformation of human nature itself, which, as it is, constantly opposes the totalitarian process. … What is at stake in total domination is really the essence of man.”

Hannah Arendt

Paul Claudel | Truth has nothing to do

"Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces."

Paul Claudel

Gore Vidal | chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice

"At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice."

Gore Vidal

Upton Sinclair | American journalism is a class institution

"American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor."

Upton Sinclair

Noam Chomsky | course of intellectual self defense

"Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for meaningful democracy."

Noam Chomsky

Murray Rothbard | The function of the statist ideologists

"The function of the statist ideologists is to weave the false set of Emperor's clothes, to convince the public of a massive double standard: that when the State commits the gravest of high crimes it is really not doing so, but doing something else that is necessary, proper, vital, and even – in former ages – by divine command. The age-old success of the ideologists of the State is perhaps the most gigantic hoax in the history of mankind"

Murray Rothbard

Ray McGovern | have in any real sense a free media

"In Washington 52 years now I've seen a lot of change but there's one change the dwarfs all the other changes in importance and that is that we no longer have in any real sense a free media and that is big that could not be bigger"

Ray McGovern

Caitlin Johnstone | power-serving worldview

"The predominant reason mainstream news reporters say things that aren’t true is because in order to be hired by mainstream news outlets, you need to jack your mind into a power-serving worldview that is not based in truth."

Caitlin Johnstone

Erich Maria Remarque | I always thought everyone was against war

"I always thought everyone was against war until I found out there are those who are all for it, especially those who do not have to go there."

Erich Maria Remarque

James H. Barry | Its news-gatherers, I sincerely believe, only obey orders

"You wish to know my "confidential opinion as to the honesty of the Associated Press." My opinion, not confidential, is that it is the damndest, meanest monopoly on the face of the earth--the wet-nurse for all other monopolies. It lies by day, it lies by night, and it lies for the very lust of lying. Its news-gatherers, I sincerely believe, only obey orders."

James H. Barry

Upton Sinclair | whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy

„Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters.“

Upton Sinclair

Gustav Kuschinsky | If it is claimed

"If it is claimed that a substance has no side effects, then there is a strong suspicion that it does not have any principal effect."

Gustav Kuschinsky

Blaise Pascal | Truth is so obscure in these times

"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

Blaise Pascal

Carl J. Burckhardt | It is one of the most difficult things

"It is one of the most difficult things that can be imposed on a thinking man, to have to witness the course of a historical process among ignorant people, whose inevitable outcome he has long known with clarity. The time of the error of others, of false hopes, of blindly committed mistakes then becomes very long."

Carl J. Burckhardt

Padmé Amidala | What if the democracy we thought we were serving no longer exists

"What if the democracy we thought we were serving no longer exists, and the Republic has become the very evil we have been fighting to destroy?"

Padmé Amidala

Maximilien de Robespierre | The secret of liberty

"The secret of liberty is to enlighten men, as that of tyranny is to keep them in ignorance."

Maximilien de Robespierre