Mass Media Quotes – Perspectives on Communication and Society

"If you have a government of good laws and bad men, you will have a bad government. For bad men will not be bound by good laws."

Robert LeFevre

"We must not forget how serious an infringement on fundamental rights a vaccination mandate would be. It does not only interfere with bodily integrity, but also affects an individual’s dignity if vaccination is carried out against their will. Given the significant uncertainty that still exists, I clearly believe that the individual’s interest in freedom outweighs everything else. In this situation, there must be no coercion to get vaccinated."

Prof. Dr. Dr. Frauke Meta Rostalski

"We can’t wait for mandatory vaccination to become unnecessary just because infection levels in the population are very high. Omicron as a kind of ‘dirty vaccination’ is not an alternative to a vaccination mandate."

Karl Lauterbach

"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."

Claude Frédéric Bastiat

"I'm not saying they're intentionally trying to shut down small businesses, destroy the middle class, transfer the majority of the wealth to the world's largest corporations, and divide us with fear and hatred. But if they were, what would they be doing differently?"

Notorious-celt

"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information."

Sir Winston Churchill

"Rage, my dear young friend, is considered the small, uncontrolled sister of anger. Anger is the shaping force of human civil society."

Thomas von Aquin

"There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning."

Warren Buffet

"And so, one must keep repeating the truth, because error is constantly being preached all around us as well—not by individuals, but by the masses. In newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities—everywhere error is on top, and it feels comfortable and at ease, in the awareness of the majority that is on its side."

Wolfgang von Goethe

"The influential news and press agencies are deeply intertwined with the interests of high finance."

Christian Faltermeier

"The mass media are a kind of mouthpiece for the consciousness of the population. If this powerful instrument falls into the wrong hands, it can cause more damage than all available nuclear weapons combined."

Christian Faltermeier

"You can't rely on what is said before the elections actually applying after the elections. And we have to expect that this could happen again in various ways."

Angela Merkel

"An obedient, silent, unresisting people is nothing more than an army of spineless slaves and servants."

Horst Bulla

"If a government can define how far criticism of it can go, then criticism is worthless and freedom of expression is an illusion."

H.-Th. Tillschneider

"The situation is clear. And I think my colleagues [doctors who vaccinate children] are being very naive if they don't fully inform patients about what's actually going on. And the political wind can change at any time. And if children die as a result, the statute of limitations only expires after 20 years. And then, as a doctor, you will be sued for negligent homicide and you will go to prison – even after 15 years. [...] I don't think many colleagues understand that."

Dr. med. Gunter Frank

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."

Thomas Jefferson

"You're just claiming that I haven't been vaccinated, and I'll leave it at that. In the meantime, I've come up with a phrase inspired by Olaf Scholz: ‘I am on a good and reasonable path to complying with 2G.’ That leaves everything open. Schmidt then remarked mockingly: “I don't want to say any more about it, otherwise I'll quickly get something thrown at my tin foil hat.”"

Harald Schmidt

"Delusion is a self-contained value system that leads to a loss of rationality because it blocks open and critical thinking. When delusion arises in a community, irrational beliefs are amplified in the communal experience, reaching a fever pitch in moments of ecstasy that give individuals a feeling of happiness and power.

Mass delusion can have a neurotic and a psychotic component. Neurosis is the struggle between inner and outer reality. It is designed to win, otherwise it succumbs to panic. Psychosis is a closed value system in which the affected person feels completely secure. They are not in conflict with the reality of the outside world, but live in their own value system, which they perceive as real. A closed system defends its autonomy by developing a self-contained logic and deriving norms from it that must be accepted without question.

People who find themselves in a closed system become blind to reality and, when their irrational forces are unleashed, easily slip into dangerous delusion."

Hermann Broch