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Gustave Le Bon | The masses have never thirsted after truth

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“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.” Gustave Le Bon “Nie haben die Massen nach Wahrheit gedürstet. Von den Tatsachen, die ihnen missfallen, wenden sie sich ab und ziehen…

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Neil deGrasse Tyson | I’m a fan of what Mark Twain said

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“I’m a fan of what Mark Twain said, he said; Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” Neil deGrasse Tyson “Ich bin ein Fan dessen, was Mark Twain sagte, er sagte; Holen Sie sich zuerst Ihre Fakten, und dann können Sie sie so weit verzerren, wie Sie möchten” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Smedley Darlington Butler | I might have given Al Capone a few hints

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“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American…

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Rumi | You can beat 40 scholars with one fact

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“You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you can’t beat one idiot with 40 facts” Rumi | mewlana_jalaluddin_rumi “Du kannst 40 Gelehrte mit einer Tatsache schlagen, aber du kannst nicht einen Idioten mit 40 Tatsachen schlagen” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Charles T. Tart | If it is not in the media… it did not happen

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“If it is not in the media… it did not happen. If it did not happen, but is in the media… we believe it has happened.” Charles T. Tart “Wenn es nicht in den Medien steht, ist es nicht passiert. Wenn es nicht passiert ist, aber in den Medien steht, dann glauben wir, dass es passiert ist.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Billy Corgan | the old deal-with-the devil stuff

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“The problem is that there’s not enough money in music as a business model. Where in television and vis-a-vis the advertisers and movies, there’s so much money that the controlling forces still circle around the stars in the right way, stars are taken care of better in those industries. In the music industry it’s still very much this exploitative thing, it’s still very much people signing their lives away, the old deal-with-the devil stuff. That is still going on, it’s unbelievable in this day-and-age that this is still going on.”…

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Fritz Bauer | obedience par excellence is a virtue

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“Unfortunately, it is a typical German trait to think that obedience par excellence is a virtue. We need the civil courage to say ‘no’.” Fritz Bauer, hessischer Generalstaatsanwalt “Leider ist es eine typisch deutsche Eigenschaft, den Gehorsam schlechthin für eine Tugend zu halten. Wir brauchen die Zivilcourage, “Nein” zu sagen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Fritz Bauer | no to state injustice

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“The certainly stirring but decisive lesson of our trials, however, demands a readiness to say an unequivocal no to state injustice.” The trials demand that people renounce private and family advantages and are also prepared to make personal sacrifices if they are required to do or tolerate evil, even if it is the state that makes itself the advocate of evil.” Fritz Bauer, »Im Namen des Volkes. Die strafrechtliche Bewältigung der Vergangenheit«, in: Helmut Hammerschmidt (Hrsg.), Zwanzig Jahre danach. Eine deutsche Bilanz 1945-1965. München u.a.: Desch Verlag, 1965, S. 314….

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Baron Arthur Ponsonby | 10 principles of war propaganda

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10 principles of war propaganda We didn’t want this war. The enemy is responsible for this war. The enemy’s leader is the devil. We’re fighting for a good cause. The enemy is using forbidden weapons. Horrible acts committed by the enemy are intentional; ours are accidental. Our casualties are minor; those of the enemy are significant. Artists and intellectuals support our cause. Our cause is holy/righteous. If you question (1)-(9), you are a traitor. Baron Arthur Ponsonby Wir wollen den Krieg nicht Das gegnerische Lager trägt die Verantwortung Der Führer…

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Lysander Spooner | Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice

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“Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally – perhaps more than equally, because more boldly – rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if intrusted with power.” Lysander Spooner “Mehrheiten als solche bieten keine Garantien für Gerechtigkeit. Sie sind Menschen von derselben Natur wie Minderheiten. Sie haben die gleichen Leidenschaften für Ruhm, Macht und Geld wie Minderheiten; und sie sind ebenso – vielleicht…

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Lysander Spooner | agents of the people

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“If a man is my servant, agent, or attorney, I necessarily make myself responsible for all his acts done within the limits of the power I have intrusted to him. If I have intrusted him, as my agent, with either absolute power, or any power at all, over the persons or properties of other men than myself, I thereby necessarily make myself responsible to those other persons for any injuries he may do them, so long as he acts within the limits of the power I have granted him. But…

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Smedley Darlington Butler | Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys

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“Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys who were sent out to die. The was the “war to end wars.” This was the “war to make the world safe for democracy.” No one told them that dollars and cents were the real reason. No one mentioned to them, as they marched away, that their going and their dying would mean huge war profits. No one told these American soldiers that they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the ships…

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Dr. Markus Krall | Every generation has been exposed to socialist seduction

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“Every generation has been exposed to socialist seduction in ever new disguises. And always a part falls for the totalitarian ideologists. And again and again there is a confrontation between humanity and totalitarianism. Also today. #EcoSocialism” Dr. Markus Krall “Noch jede Generation war der sozialistischen Verführung in immer neuen Verkleidungen ausgesetzt. Und immer fällt ein Teil auf die totalitären Ideologen herein. Und immer wieder kommt es zur Konfrontation zwischen Menschlichkeit und Totalitarismus. Auch heute. #Ökosozialismus” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Edmund Burke | But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

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“But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.” Edmund Burke “Aber was ist Freiheit ohne Weisheit und ohne Tugend? Sie ist das größte aller möglichen Übel; denn sie ist Torheit, Laster und Wahnsinn, ohne Unterweisung oder Zurückhaltung. Diejenigen, die wissen, was tugendhafte Freiheit ist,…

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Prof. Stephen Schneider | to capture the public’s imagination…

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“We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination… So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts… Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest” Prof. Stephen Schneider | Stanford Professor of Climatology, lead author of many IPCC reports. “Wir brauchen eine breite Unterstützung, um die Phantasie der Öffentlichkeit zu beflügeln… Also müssen wir Schreckensszenarien anbieten, vereinfachte, dramatische Aussagen machen und Zweifel kaum erwähnen… Jeder von…

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Robbie Williams | We’re in a post-truth world

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“We’re in a post-truth world where you can’t believe the media, you can’t believe Big Pharma, you can’t believe politicians, you can’t believe what you’re eating, you can’t believe yourself. Since we’ve existed, (if) there is a time where this whole empire could fall, it’s now. Of course these things are going to arise because we can’t trust anybody or anything. And I personally just believe and invest in my wife and my kids and my family. And yeah, I believe in them,” Robbie Williams “Wir leben in einer postfaktischen…

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Mark Passio | The more moral a population is, the freer it becomes

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“The more moral a population is, the freer it becomes. The more immoral a population is, the deeper into bondage and slavery it goes. Another way of saying this is to say that the presence of truth and morality in the lives of the people of any given society is always inversely proportional to the presence of tyranny and slavery in that society. The more truth and morality there is, the less tyranny and slavery there is. The less truth and morality there is, the more tyranny and slavery there…

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Theodore Dalrymple | Political correctness is communist propaganda

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“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is…

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Bill Maher | If kids knew what they wanted to be at age eight

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“If kids knew what they wanted to be at age eight, the world would be filled with cowboys and princesses. I wanted to be a pirate. Thank God nobody took me seriously and scheduled me for eye removal and peg leg surgery.” Bill Maher “Wenn Kinder mit 8 Jahren wüssten, was sie werden wollen, wäre die Welt voller Cowboys und Prinzess innen. Ich wollte ein Pirat sein. Gott sei Dank hat das niemand ernst genommen und mich operiert, um ein Auge zu entfernen und ein Holzbein einzusetzen” Nützliche und hilfreiche…

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Vladimir Lenin | We can and must write in a language

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“We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.” Vladimir Lenin Variant: “We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth. We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, scorn, and the like, toward those who disagree with us.” “Wir können und müssen in einer Sprache schreiben, die in den Massen Hass, Abscheu und Verachtung gegenüber denjenigen sät, die anderer Meinung sind als wir.” Variante:…

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Max Weber | All political entities are violent entities

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“All political entities are violent entities. But the type and degree of the use or threat of external violence against other similar entities plays a specific role in the structure and fate of political communities. Not every political entity is equally “expansive” in the sense that it seeks power externally, i.e., making force available for the purpose of acquiring political power over other territories and communities, whether in the form of incorporation or [of] dependency. The political entities are thus, to varying degrees, outwardly turned entities of violence.” Max Weber…

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Vladimir Lenin | Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed?

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“Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?” Vladimir Lenin “Warum sollte die Rede- und Pressefreiheit erlaubt sein? Warum sollte eine Regierung, die tut, was sie für richtig hält, zulassen, dass sie kritisiert…

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Adam Weishaupt | The hankering of the mind is irresistible

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“Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?. Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.” Adam Weishaupt “Oh sterblicher Mensch, gibt es irgendetwas, das man dir nicht glauben machen kann? Von allen Mitteln, die ich kenne, um die Menschen zu leiten, ist das wirksamste ein verborgenes Geheimnis: Das Verlangen des Geistes ist unwiderstehlich.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Charles H. Spurgeon | Es wird eine Zeit kommen

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“A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats.” Charles H. Spurgeon “Es wird eine Zeit kommen, in der die Kirche keine Hirten mehr hat, die die Schafe füttern, sondern Clowns, die die Ziegen unterhalten.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Jacques Élisée Reclus | the policy of hatred always breeds hatred

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“History permits the well-founded observation that the policy of hatred always breeds hatred and fatally complicates the general situation, if not leads to final ruin. How many nations perished in this way. Oppressors as well as oppressed! Should we also be doomed? I hope not! And I owe this hope also to the anarchist thinking, which penetrates day by day more and more into the light and renews the human initiative.” Jacques Élisée Reclus was a French geographer and anarchist. (1830-1905) “Die Geschichte lässt die wohlbegründete Feststellung zu, dass die…

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Dave Chappelle | Being “awake” isn’t cool

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“Being “awake” isn’t cool. It means having to dumb down 98% of your conversations every day so you don’t sound like a lunatic.” Dave Chappelle | US-amerikanischen Comedian “Erwacht zu sein ist nicht cool. Es bedeutet, dass man jeden Tag 98% seiner Unterhaltungen verdummen muss, damit man nicht wie ein Verrückter klingt.” Dieses Zitat stammt von dem US-amerikanischen Comedian Dave Chappelle: “Being “awake” isn’t cool. It means having to dumb down 98% of your conversations every day so you don’t sound like a lunatic.” Es stammt aus Chappelles Comedy Special…