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Vilfredo Pareto | All governments use force

“All governments use force and all assert that they are founded on reason. In fact, whether universal suffrage prevails or not, it is always an oligarchy that governs, finding ways to give to’the will of the people’the expression which the few desire.” Vilfredo Pareto (Quoted in Arthur Livingstone | The Mind and Society 1935) “Alle Regierungen wenden Gewalt an, und alle behaupten, dass sie auf Vernunft gegründet sind. Unabhängig davon, ob es ein allgemeines Wahlrecht gibt oder nicht, ist es in Wirklichkeit immer eine Oligarchie, die regiert und Wege findet,…

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Marshall McLuhan | The ad teams have billions to spend annually on research

“No group of sociologists can approximate the ad teams in the gathering and processing of exploitable social data. The ad teams have billions to spend annually on research and testing of reactions, and their products are magnificent accumulations of material about the shared experience and feelings of the entire community.” Marshall McLuhan Philosoph, The Extensions of Man “Keine Gruppe von Soziologen kann den Werbe-Teams bei der Erfassung und Verarbeitung von auswertbaren sozialen Daten annähernd die Stange halten. Die Werbeabteilungen können jährlich Milliarden für Forschung und Tests von Reaktionen ausgeben, und…

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Marshall McLuhan | manage the public’s perception of a subject

“Publicity is the deliberate attempt to manage the public’s perception of a subject. The subjects of publicity include people (for example, politicians and performing artists), goods and services, organizations of all kinds, and works of art or entertainment.” Marshall McLuhan | Philosoph, The Extensions of Man “Öffentlichkeitsarbeit ist der bewusste Versuch, die öffentliche Wahrnehmung eines Themas zu steuern. Zu den Subjekten der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit gehören Menschen (z.B. Politiker und darstellende Künstler), Waren und Dienstleistungen, Organisationen aller Art sowie Kunst- und Unterhaltungswerke.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Hannah Arendt | those who choose the lesser evil

“In their moral justification, the argument of the lesser evil has played a prominent role. If you are confronted with two evils, the argument runs, it is your duty to opt for the lesser one, whereas it is irresponsible to refuse to choose altogether. Its weakness has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget quickly that they chose evil.[….] Acceptance of the lesser evil is deliberately used to accustom officials, as well as the population at large, to accept the evil itself.” Hannah Arendt “Bei ihrer moralischen…

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Albert Pike | We always give the public their heroes

“We always give the public their heroes. We give the heroes to every faction, and then people once they hear this person say all the right things, we give releases to them because he or she speaks for ‘me’. We say go there go do that and they do it. We give our power to the authorized heroes.” Albert Pike, (the Pope of Freemasonry in the 1800’s) “Wir geben der Öffentlichkeit immer ihre Helden. Wir geben jeder Fraktion, jeder Seite ihre Helden und wenn die Leute dann hören, dass diese…

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Aldous Huxley | man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions

“In regard to propaganda, the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or it might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies — the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.” Aldous…

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Gib ihnen am Morgen eine Lügenzeitung

“Give them a lying newspaper in the morning, let them work a lot during the day for little money and bring the latest manipulated news on TV in the evening, alternating with dumbed-down shows, movies and commercials. Thus they have no more time to think consciously.” Autor Unbekannt “Gib ihnen am Morgen eine Lügenzeitung, lass sie tagsüber für wenig Geld viel arbeiten und bring am Abend im Fernsehen die neuesten manipulierten Nachrichten, abwechselnd mit Verblödungsshows, Filmen und Werbung. Somit haben die keine Zeit mehr, um bewusst nachzudenken.” Nützliche und hilfreiche…

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Walter Ulbricht | it must look democratic

“it must look democratic but we must control everything” Walter Ernst Paul Ulbricht (Anfang Mai 1945, zitiert in: Wolfgang Leonhard: Die Revolution entläßt ihre Kinder (1955)) “Es muß demokratisch aussehen, aber wir müssen alles in der Hand haben.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Aldous Huxley | Impersonal forces over which we have almost no control

“Impersonal forces over which we have almost no control seem to be pushing us all in the direction of the Brave New Worldian nightmare; and this impersonal pushing is being consciously accelerated by representatives of commercial and political organizations who have developed a number of new techniques for manipulating, in the interest of some minority, the thoughts and feelings of the masses.” Aldous Huxley, Preface to A Brave New World “Unpersönliche Kräfte, über die wir fast keine Kontrolle haben, scheinen uns alle in Richtung des Albtraums der Schönen Neuen Welt…

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Milton Friedman | Every friend of freedom

“Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.” Milton Friedman “Jeder Freund der Freiheit muss genauso empört sein wie ich über die Aussicht, die Vereinigten Staaten in ein bewaffnetes Lager zu verwandeln, über die Vision von Gefängnissen, die mit gelegentlichen Drogenkonsumenten gefüllt sind, und von einer Armee von Vollstreckern,…

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Vladimir Lenin | While the State exists, there can be no freedom

“While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.” Vladimir Lenin, Estado y revolución “Solange es den Staat gibt, kann es keine Freiheit geben. Wenn es Freiheit gibt, wird es keinen Staat geben.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Thomas Jefferson | ignorant and free

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.” Thomas Jefferson “Wenn von einer Nation erwartet wird, dass sie [gleichzeitig] ignorant und frei sei, wird etwas erwartet, das nie war und nie sein wird.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Steve Jacobson | Political and economic power

“Political and economic power in the United States is concentrated in the hands of a “ruling elite” that controls most of U.S.-based multinational corporations, major communication media, the most influential foundations, major private universities and most public utilities. Founded in 1921, the Council of Foreign Relations is the key link between the large corporations and the federal government. It has been called a “school for statesmen” and “comes close to being an organ of what C. Wright Mills has called the Power Elite – a group of men, similar in…

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Walter Lippmann | The process by which public opinions arise

“That the manufacture of consent is capable of great refinements no one, I think, denies. The process by which public opinions arise is certainly no less intricate than it has appeared in these pages, and the opportunities for manipulation open to anyone who understands the process are plain enough. . . . as a result of psychological research, coupled with the modern means of communication, the practice of democracy has turned a corner. A revolution is taking place, infinitely more significant than any shifting of economic power. . . ….

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Jacques Ellul | propaganda refines its techniques.

“It is with knowledge of the human being, his tendencies, his desires, his needs, his psychic mechanisms, his automatisms as well as knowledge of social psychology and analytical psychology that propaganda refines its techniques.” Jacques Ellul (war ein französischer Soziologe und Theologe.) “Mit der Kenntnis des Menschen, seiner Neigungen, seiner Wünsche, seiner Bedürfnisse, seiner psychischen Mechanismen, seiner Automatismen sowie mit der Kenntnis der Sozialpsychologie und der analytischen Psychologie verfeinert die Propaganda ihre Techniken.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Tony Cartalucci | Your Real Government

“These organizations represent the collective interests of the largest corporations on earth. They not only retain armies of policy wonks and researchers to articulate their agenda and form a consensus internally, but also use their massive accumulation of unwarranted influence in media, industry, and finance to manufacture a self-serving consensus internationally. To believe that this corporate-financier oligarchy would subject their agenda and fate to the whims of the voting masses is naive at best. They have painstakingly ensured that no matter who gets into office, in whatever country, the guns,…

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Jacques Ellul | It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale

“It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale. The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment. Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.” Jacques Ellul war ein französischer Soziologe und Theologe. “Durch die Massenmedien kann Propaganda auf die gesamte Gesellschaft angewendet werden. Das Zusammenspiel von Presse, Radio und Fernsehen…

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Prof. Rainer Mausfeld | the illusion of democracy

“But what could make democracy attractive to the powerful, whose very power it limits and threatens? The answer is quite simple: Nothing! For democracy means precisely to restrict the power needs of the powerful and the rich, in which they naturally have no interest. This now results in a tension between the needs of the rulers to stabilize their status and our need to feel socially autonomous and self-determined with regard to our social situation. In history, this fundamental tension has often been discharged in the form of revolutions. From…

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Noam Chomsky | Voting is not an option

“It’s about what you would expect from a bipartisan democracy campaign — it’s an attempt to impose what is called democracy, meaning rule by the rich and the powerful, without interference by the mob but within the framework of formal electoral procedures.” Noam Chomsky in 1993 regarding NED: Voting is not an option “Es ist in etwa, was man von einem zweiparteilichen demokratischen Wahlkampf erwartet – es ist ein Versuch, das aufzuzwingen, was formell Demokratie genannt wird, d.h. Herrschaft durch die Reichen und Mächtigen, ohne eigentliche Einflussnahme durch die breite…

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Gustave de Molinari | Anarchy is no guarantee

“Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won’t kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.” Gustave de Molinari “Anarchie ist keine Garantie dafür, dass nicht einige Menschen andere töten, verletzen, entführen, betrügen oder bestehlen werden. Eine Regierung ist eine Garantie dafür, dass einige es tun.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb | gap between journalists and the public

“The fact that there is a gap between journalists and the public is shown above all by the fact that the former are much more interested in the opinion of their colleagues than in the judgment of their readers. Compare this with a healthy system, for example that of restaurants. As we […] have seen, restaurant owners care about the opinions of their diners, not those of other restaurant owners, which keeps restaurant owners doing what their job is; it prevents the industry as a whole from moving away from…

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Henry Hazlitt | The whole gospel of Karl Marx in a single sentence

“The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else…

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Ernst Jünger | The most horrifying prospect is that of technocracy

“The most horrifying prospect is that of technocracy, controlled rule exercised by maimed and mutilating minds.” Ernst Jünger “Die grauenvollste Aussicht ist die der Technokratie, einer kontrollierten Herrschaft, die durch verstümmelte und verstümmelnde Geister ausgeübt wird.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Hans Hermann Hoppe | Democracy is a soft variant of communism

“Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.” Prof. Hans Hermann Hoppe (“Reflections on State and War”. Talk in Auburn, Alabama, on the occasion of receiving the Mises Institute’s 2006 Gary G. Schlarbaum Liberty Prize, www.lewrockwell.com. December 02, 2006.) “Demokratie hat nichts mit Freiheit zu tun. Demokratie ist eine weiche Variante des Kommunismus, und selten in der Geschichte der Ideen ist sie für etwas anderes gehalten worden.” Nützliche und hilfreiche…

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Roland Baader | The only true human right

“The only true human right is the right to be left alone – by anyone you didn’t invite or welcome” Roland Baader “Das einzig wahre Menschenrecht ist das Recht, in Ruhe gelassen zu werden – von jedem, den man nicht eingeladen hat oder den man nicht willkommen heißt.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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The Libertarian Pilot | rules of state power

“We were raised by people who dutifully follow the rules of state power. We were brought up to follow the rules & not question the state. But now malicious people make the rules. It’s time to teach our children something different.” The Libertarian Pilot “Wir wurden von Menschen erzogen, die brav die Regeln der Staatsmacht befolgen. Wir wurden dazu erzogen, die Regeln zu befolgen & den Staat nicht zu hinterfragen. Doch jetzt machen bösartige Menschen die Regeln. Es ist an der Zeit, unseren Kindern etwas anderes beizubringen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche…

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Joost A.M. Meerloo | democratic or totalitarian

“In my own experience, I have been amazed to see how unrealistic are the bases for political opinion in general. Only rarely have I found a person who has chosen any particular political party – democratic or totalitarian – through study and comparison of principles.” Joost A.M. Meerloo “In meiner eigenen Erfahrung habe ich mit Erstaunen festgestellt, wie unrealistisch die Grundlagen der politischen Meinung im Allgemeinen sind. Nur selten habe ich eine Person gefunden, die eine bestimmte politische Partei – demokratisch oder totalitär – durch Studium und Vergleich von Prinzipien…

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George Orwell | everything else is public relations

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations.” George Orwell (Zitat wird angezweifelt) “Journalismus heißt, etwas zu drucken, von dem jemand will, dass es nicht gedruckt wird. Alles andere ist Propaganda.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…