“I know the secret of making the average American believing anything I want them to. Just let me control television. You put something on the television and it becomes reality. If the world outside the TV set contradicts the images, people start trying to change the world to make it like the TV sets images.”
Hal Becker
“The problem is not people being educated. The problem is that they are educated just enough to believe what they’ve been taught, but not educated enough to question what they’ve been taught.”
Unbekannter Autor
“We are told ‘no’, we’re unimportant, we’re peripheral. ‘Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.’ And then you’re a player, you don’t want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”
Terence McKenna
“And if it continues, then we have to keep going as well. We cannot stop—we cannot say, ‘We’re stopping now with Omicron.’ Omicron will not end the pandemic either, even if that were actually the case—which we will prevent.”
Karl Lauterbach
“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”
Henry David Thoreau
“People have no idea how many constraints there are in politics. Politicians are, to some extent, governed by processes, events, and procedures beyond their control. You are not all-powerful—at times, you are simply powerless.”
Peter Tauber
“TIME: Was there a particular kind of terrorism in Germany associated with Baader, Meinhof, and the others?
Helmut Schmidt: I suspect that all forms of terrorism—whether Germany’s RAF, Italy’s Brigate Rosse, the French, the Irish, the Spanish, or Arab groups—differ little in their contempt for human life. They are surpassed by certain forms of state terrorism.
TIME: Are you serious? Who do you mean?
Helmut Schmidt: Let’s leave it at that. But I do mean what I’m saying.”
Helmut Schmidt
“You can protect a society, you can protect an economy, and you can even protect personal relationships to death.”
Prof. Ferdinand Kirchhof
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
George Orwell