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Ayn Rand | You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences

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„Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive by any random means, as a parasite, a moocher or a looter, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment—so he is free to seek his happiness in any irrational fraud, any whim, any delusion, any mindless escape from reality, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment nor to escape the consequences.“ Ayn Rand Sometimes paraphrased as:…

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Arno Gruen | While those who can no longer bear the loss of human values

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“While those who can no longer bear the loss of human values are considered insane, those who have separated from their human roots are certified normal.” Arno Gruen | war ein deutsch-schweizerischer Schriftsteller, Psychologe und Psychoanalytiker. Nach der Flucht aus Nazideutschland 1936 verbrachte er über 40 Jahre in den USA. “Während jene als verrückt gelten, die den Verlust der menschlichen Werte nicht mehr ertragen, wird denen Normalität bescheinigt, die sich von ihren menschlichen Wurzeln getrennt haben.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Edward Osborne Wilson | We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom

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“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.” Edward Osborne Wilson “Wir ertrinken in Informationen, während wir nach Weisheit hungern. Die Welt wird in Zukunft von Synthesizern regiert werden, von Menschen, die in der Lage sind, die richtigen Informationen zur richtigen Zeit zusammenzustellen, kritisch darüber nachzudenken und wichtige Entscheidungen mit Bedacht zu treffen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Thomas von Aquin | The greatest kindness

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“The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.” Thomas von Aquin “Die größte Freundlichkeit, die man einem Menschen erweisen kann, besteht darin, ihn vom Irrtum zur Wahrheit zu führen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Daniel Dennett | There’s simply no polite way

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“There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.” Daniel Dennett “Es gibt einfach keine höflichere Art, Menschen zu sagen, dass sie ihr Leben einer Illusion gewidmet haben.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Thomas von Aquin | He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral

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“He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.” Thomas von Aquin “Wer nicht zornig ist, wenn es einen berechtigten Grund zum Zorn gibt, ist unmoralisch. Warum? Weil der Zorn auf das Wohl der Gerechtigkeit gerichtet ist. Und wer inmitten von Ungerechtigkeit ohne Zorn leben kann, ist nicht nur ungerecht, sondern auch unmoralisch.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Bill Hicks | a productive member of society

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“If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.” Bill Hicks “Wenn man eine Gesellschaft…

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Friedrich Nietzsche | We live in a system

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“We live in a system in which one must either be a wheel or get crushed by the wheels.” Friedrich Nietzsche „Wir leben in einem System, in dem man entweder Rad sein muß oder unter die Räder gerät.“ Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Noam Chomsky | Therefore it’s important to distract them

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“The bewildered herd is a problem. We’ve got to prevent their roar and trampling. We’ve got to distract them. They should be watching the Superbowl or sitcoms or violent movies. Every once in a while you call on them to chant meaningless slogans like “Support our troops.” You’ve got to keep them pretty scared, because unless they’re properly scared and frightened of all kinds of devils that are going to destroy them from outside or inside or somewhere, they may start to think, which is very dangerous, because they’re not…

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Anne Lammott | The most profound thing

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“The most profound thing we have to offer our children is our own healing.” Anne Lammott “Die tiefgründigste Sache, die wir unseren Kindern bieten müssen, ist unsere eigene Heilung.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Jack Posobiec | homogenized consumer class of worker drones

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“You’re going to be a homogenized consumer class of worker drones in order for them to establish Elysium, and this is also where … the metaverse comes in. Transhumanism, this is your bread and circuses now. It’s virtual bread and circuses to distract you from the suffering that goes on all around you.” Jack Posobiec | Eat Bugs, Live In Your Pod, Own Nothing and Be Happy: Wilsonian Thought Has Long Been Shaping Citizens into Serfs “Ihr werdet eine homogenisierte Konsumentenklasse von Arbeitsdrohnen sein, damit sie Elysium errichten können, und…

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Senator William Jenner | path of total dictatorship

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“Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the Congress, the President, or the people. Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government – a bureaucratic elite.” Senator William Jenner, 1954 “Heute kann der Weg zur totalen Diktatur in den Vereinigten Staaten mit streng legalen Mitteln beschritten werden, unbemerkt und ungehört vom Kongress, dem Präsidenten oder dem Volk. Äußerlich haben wir eine verfassungsmäßige…

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Lao Tzu | Care about what other people think

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“Care about what other people think, and you will always be their prisoner” Lao Tzu “Kümmere dich darum, was andere Leute denken und du wirst immer ihr Gefangener sein.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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George Bernard Shaw | I’m known for my irony

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“I’m known for my irony. But the idea of erecting a Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor would not have occurred to even me.” George Bernard Shaw “Ich bin bekannt für meine Ironie. Aber auf den Gedanken, im Hafen von New York eine Freiheitsstatue zu errichten, wäre selbst ich nicht gekommen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Thomas Sowell | so many successful politicians are such shameless liars

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“The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.” Thomas Sowell, amerikanischer Philosoph “Die Tatsache, dass so viele erfolgreiche Politiker solch schamlose Lügner sind, sagt nicht nur etwas über sie aus, sondern auch über uns. Wenn Menschen das Unmögliche wollen, dann werden nur Lügner genügen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Ignazio Silone | You can’t beg your freedom from someone

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“Freedom is not something you get as a present,” said Pietro. “You can live in a dictatorship and be free – on one condition: that you fight the dictatorship. The man who thinks with is own mind and keeps it uncorrupted is free. The man who fights for what he thinks is right is free. But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you’re lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you’re not free. Even without any violent coercion, you’re a slave. You can’t beg your…

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Adam Weishaupt | The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment (illuminati)

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“The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its own name, but always concealed by another name, and another occupation. None is fitter than the lower degrees of Freemasonry; the public is accustomed to it, expects little from it, and therefore takes little notice of it. Next to this, the form of a learned or literary society is best suited to our purpose, and had Freemasonry not existed, this cover would have been employed; and it may be much more…

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Bertrand Russell | on the threshold of a Golden Age

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“It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a Golden Age: but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and that dragon is religion.” Bertrand Russell “Es ist möglich, dass die Menschheit an der Schwelle eines goldenen Zeitalters steht, aber wenn es so ist, wird es notwendig sein, zuerst den Drachen zu töten, der die Tür bewacht, und dieser Drache ist Religion.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Jürgen Trittin | which attacks are the responsibility of terrorists and which are the responsibility of the state

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“It may be that the history of terrorism needs to be rewritten. It is no longer known which attacks are the responsibility of terrorists and which are the responsibility of the state.” Jürgen Trittin “Möglicherweise muss die Geschichte des Terrorismus neu geschrieben werden. Man weiß nicht mehr welche Anschläge von Terroristen und welche vom Staat zu verantworten sind.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Nesta Webster | to attain the masters of the world

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“The art of Illuminism lay in enlisting dupes as well as adepts and by encouraging dreams of honest visionaries or the schemes of fanatics. By flattering the vanity of ambitious egotists, by working on the unbalanced brains or by playing such passions as greed and power to make men of totally divergent aims serve the secret purpose of the sect. People with money were welcomed but kept oblivious of actual secrets. The purpose is to win power and riches, to undermine secular or religious government and to attain the masters…

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George Bernard Shaw | The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings

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“The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.” George Bernard Shaw | irischer Schriftsteller “Der politiker, der ehemals lernen mußte, wie man Königen schmeichelt, muß jetzt lernen, wie man die Phantasie der Wähler bezaubert, unterhält, bestrickt, beschwindelt, erschreckt oder sonst irgendwie verblüfft.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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José Ortega y Gasset | Universal suffrage

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“Universal suffrage did not give the masses the right to decide, but to approve the decision of one elite or another.” José Ortega y Gasset (spanischer Philosoph, Schriftsteller und Soziologe Aufstand der Massen | Eine statistische Tatsache) “Das allgemeine Stimmrecht gab der Masse nicht das Recht zu entscheiden, sondern die Entscheidung der einen oder andern Elite gutzuheißen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Marcus Aurelius | The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority

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“The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” Marcus Aurelius (Zitat ist möglicherweise falsch zugeordnet!) „Das Ziel im Leben ist nicht auf der Seite der Mehrheit zu sein, sondern darin, sich selbst nicht in den Rängen der Wahnsinnigen wiederzufinden.“ Misattributed Quelle: The first citation appears in a translation of Leo Tolstoy’s Bethink Yourselves! The claim made that it is from Marcus Aurelius. Nothing closely resembling it appears in Meditations, nor does it appear…

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Salvador Dalí | One day it will have to be officially admitted

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“One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.” Salvador Dalí „Eines Tages wird man offiziell zugeben müssen, dass das, was wir Wirklichkeit getauft haben, eine noch größere Illusion ist als die Welt des Traumes.“ Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Winston Churchill | bodyguard of lies

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“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” Winston S. Churchill “In Kriegszeiten ist die Wahrheit so kostbar, dass sie immer von einer Leibwache der Lügen begleitet werden sollte.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…