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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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Ludwig Erhard | Inflation does not come upon us as a curse or as a tragic fate

“Inflation does not come upon us as a curse or as a tragic fate; it is always caused by reckless or even criminal policies.” Ludwig Erhard, 1957 “Die Inflation kommt nicht über uns als ein Fluch oder als ein tragisches Geschick; sie wird immer durch eine leichtfertige oder sogar verbrecherische Politik hervorgerufen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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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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Edward Bernays | motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda

“The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions. The motion picture can standardize the ideas and habits of a nation. Because pictures are made to meet market demands, they reflect, emphasize and even exaggerate broad popular tendencies, rather than stimulate new ideas and opinions. The motion picture avails itself only of ideas and facts which are in vogue. As the newspaper seeks to purvey news, it seeks to purvey entertainment.” Edward Bernays “Der amerikanische…

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Thomas Sowell | More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa

“More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in the Ottoman Empire, decades after blacks were freed in the United States.” Thomas Sowell, US-amerikanischer Ökonom und Historiker “Es wurden mehr Weisse als Sklaven nach Nordafrika gebracht als Schwarze als Sklaven in die Vereinigten Staaten oder in die 13 Kolonien, aus denen sie entstanden sind. Weisse Sklaven wurden noch Jahrzehnte nach der Befreiung…

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Carl Gustav Jung | The Concept of the Collective Unconscious

“My thesis, then, is as follows: In addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which we believe to be the only empirical psyche (even if we tack on the personal unconscious as an appendix), there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not develop individually but is inherited. It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which can only become conscious secondarily and which give definite form to certain psychic…

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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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Mahatma Gandhi | The state represents violence

“The state represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the state is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.” Mahatma Gandhi “Der Staat repräsentiert Gewalt in einer intensivierten und organisierten Form. Das Individuum hat eine Seele, aber der Staat, der eine Maschine ohne Seele ist, kann von Gewalt nicht befreit werden, da er ihm seine Existenz verdankt.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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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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John Denver | As a self appointed messiah

“As a self appointed messiah, I view music as far more than just entertainment” John Denver, (zitiert in The Rock Report, S. 10) “Als selbst ernannter Messias sehe ich in der Musik weit mehr als nur Unterhaltung.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Phillip Chapman Lesh | devery place we played was church

“In those days we used to say that every place we played was church and that’s what it was like. A pretty far out church but that’s how we felt.” Phillip Chapman Lesh (US-amerikanischer Musiker, der vor allem als Bassist von Grateful Dead bekannt wurde.) “Damals sagten wir immer, dass jeder Ort, an dem wir spielten, eine Kirche war, und so war es auch. Eine abgehobene Kirche, aber so haben wir uns gefühlt.” * Jerome John „Jerry“ Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American guitarist, singer…

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Gary Greenberg | The band was the high priest

“it was not just a concert. It was a place of worship. The band was the high priest, the songs the liturgy, the dancing the prayer, the audience the congregation. Out of these simple ingredients we created a tradition and enacted a ritual that was at once entirely familiar and thoroughly mysterious.” Gary Greenberg (Describes the Grateful Dead concerts as “A PLACE OF WORSHIP.” | Not Fade Away: The Online World Remembers Jerry Garcia, p. 42) [“The Grateful Dead embody not only the cultic potentials historically inherent in rock ‘n’…

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Hans Hermann Hoppe | the greatest threat to human security

“The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his book Death by Government, Rudolph Rummel estimates some 170 million government-caused deaths in the twentieth century. The historical evidence appears to indicate that, rather than protecting life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of their citizens, governments must be considered the greatest threat to human security.” Prof. Hans Hermann Hoppe (Myth of National Defense) “Das gerade zu Ende gegangene zwanzigste Jahrhundert war durch ein Ausmaß an Menschenrechtsverletzungen gekennzeichnet,…

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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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Kwai Chang Caine | the prison is within you

“If you trust me completely…I can help you. If I tell you you are not within a prison the prison is within you can you believe that?” Kwai Chang Caine (David Carradine | Filmzitat | Kung Fu 1972) “Wenn du mir vollkommen vertraust, kann ich dir helfen. Wenn ich Ihnen sage, dass Sie sich nicht in einem Gefängnis befinden, sondern dass das Gefängnis in Ihnen ist, können Sie das glauben?” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…