Albert Einstein | The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb
"The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses."
Albert Einstein
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Albert Pike | Fictions are necessary for the people
"Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The Truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason"
Albert Pike
Benjamin Disraeli | secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents
"The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans."
Benjamin Disraeli
Richard N. Gardner | The New World Order will be created
"The New World Order will be created and ultimately put an end to all national sovereignty. But an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault."
Richard N. Gardner
Larry P. McDonald | böser Plan für eine Weltregierung
"Der Antrieb der Rockefellers und ihrer Verbündeten besteht darin, eine Ein-Welt-Regierung zu schaffen, die Superkapitalismus und Kommunismus unter einem Zelt vereint, alle unter ihrer Kontrolle... meine ich Verschwörung?Ja, ich will.Ich bin überzeugt, dass es eine solche Verschwörung gibt, die international ist, Generationen alt in der Planung und unglaublich böse in der Absicht."
Larry P. McDonald
Carl Sagan | Imagination will often carry us to worlds
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
Carl Sagan
Benjamin Disraeli | The world is governed by very different personages
"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."
Benjamin Disraeli
Madonna | What’s the difference between a pop star and a terrorist?
"What's the difference between a pop star and a terrorist? You can negotiate with a terrorist."
Madonna
Leo Tolstoy | Governments not only are not necessary
"Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions."
Leo Tolstoy
Bertrand Russell | system of deception
"Educational systems have been developed not to impart genuine knowledge but to make the people docile to the will of the rulers. Without a sophisticated system of deception in schools, it would be impossible to maintain the appearance of democracy. It is not desired that ordinary citizens think for themselves. Because it is believed that people who think for themselves are difficult to handle. Only the elites are supposed to think. The rest are supposed to obey and follow their leaders, like a herd of mutton. This doctrine has corrupted all state education systems from the ground up, even in democracies."
Bertrand Russell
Nesta Webster | to attain the masters of the world
"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 of the world."
Nesta Webster
Vicco von Bülow | Men have more imagination!
"Men have more imagination! A woman would never have flown to the moon. That's a purely male idea. If women ruled us, we might not have satellite TV, but we would have saved a lot of money."
Vicco von Bülow
Hans Herbert von Arnim | legitimizing power despite its democratic shortcomings
"The political class is supported by the many-thousand-voiced chorus of those who are committed to it by the already accomplished or still hoped-for awarding of offices and dignities. The proof of deficiencies is made difficult at the outset by the fact that there is an abundance of thought patterns (paradigms), formulas and theories that support the basic ideological thesis of the quasi-automatic functioning of the system. They seek to close the gap between norm and reality not by improving reality, but by interpreting the norm laxly or by obfuscating reality. Serving the cause of legitimizing power despite its democratic shortcomings: scientific paradigms, political formulas, scientific theories, prohibitions of thought and language (= "political correctness"), stagings of reality and the so-called political education (...) If one does not let oneself be blinded by the blinkered paradigms and political formulas saber and does not let the way to knowledge be shifted by glossing over theories, then one recognizes that the two basic principles of our form of government, public welfare and democracy, are realized by the existing system only to a very limited extent."
Hans Herbert von Arnim
George Bernard Shaw | The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings
"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
Rudolf Augstein | It does not really matter
"It does not really matter whether democracy functions according to it's original idea but rather that it is seen as functional by the population."
Rudolf Augstein
José Ortega y Gasset | Universal suffrage
"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
Rudolf Steiner | to an intolerable tyranny
"What would be in store for mankind, for example, if one wanted to take advantage of the fear of bacilli and create regulations of a legal nature against the fight against bacilli. ( ) It is impossible to control all this, but it would lead to impossible conditions, to an intolerable tyranny."
Rudolf Steiner
Noam Chomsky | The general population doesn’t know
"The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know."
Noam Chomsky
James Dresden | Die ideale Tyrannei
"Die ideale Tyrannei ist die, die ignorant von seinen Opfern selbstverwaltet wird. Die perfektesten Sklaven sind deshalb die, die sich glückselig und unbewusst versklaven lassen."
James Dresden
James Dresden | A truth’s initial commotion
"A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn’t the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn’t flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."
James Dresden
Donald Trump | The existence of evil
"The existence of evil in our world is not a reason to disarm law-abiding citizens who know how to use their weapon, the existence of evil is one of the very best reasons to arm law-abiding citizens."
Donald Trump
Jack Posobiec | homogenized consumer class of worker drones
"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
Carl Sagan on the importance of science education
"We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it? ... Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."
Carl Sagan
Aldous Huxley | The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy
"The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy, a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not dream of escape. A system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, slaves would love their servitude."
Aldous Huxley
Tiffany Madison | Most gun control arguments miss the point
"Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly “free” state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot."
Tiffany Madison
George Orwell | To keep them in control was not difficult
"Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult."
George Orwell, 1984