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Carl Sagan | Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking

“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreshadowing of an America in the time of my children or grandchildren – when the United States is a service and information economy; when Almost all major manufacturing industries have moved to other countries; when terrible technological powers are in the hands of too few, and no one representing the public interest can understand the issues; when people have lost the ability to set their own agenda. Lost or deliberately questioned by those…

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Konrad Lorenz | To the extent that handicrafts are wiped out by the competition of industry

“To the extent that handicrafts are wiped out by the competition of industry, and to the extent that the smaller entrepreneur, including the farmer, becomes unable to exist, we are all quite simply forced to submit in our way of life to the wishes of the large producers, to eat the food and put on the clothes they think good for us, and what is worst of all, by virtue of the conditioning bestowed upon us, we do not even realize that they are doing so.” Konrad Lorenz “In dem…

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Theodore Dalrymple | Political correctness is communist propaganda

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

“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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Richard Haass | The common enemy of humanity is man

“The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.” Richard Haass | Club of Rome, leading environmental think tank, adviser to the United Nations. “Der gemeinsame Feind der Menschheit ist der…

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Frederick Taylor Gates | the people yield themselves with perfect docility

“In our dreams we have limitless resources and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our moulding hand. The present education conventions made from our minds and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, editors, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists,…

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Rupert Sheldrake | Science delusion is the belief that science …

“Science delusion is the belief that science has already fundamentally understood the nature of our reality and only the details need to be completed. I believe this is a seriously flawed view. Most people’s first reaction is one of disbelief and rejection when they first hear this statement. How could there actually be anything more successful than science? It has given us cell phones, computers, airplanes, advanced forms of surgery, and much more. We have huge advantages today through science and through its technical applications. It looks as if there…

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Richard Feynman | iintellectual tyranny in the name of science

“Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers in the preceding generation (…) When someone says, “Science teaches such and such,” he is using the word incorrectly. Science doesn’t teach anything; experience teaches it. If they say to you, “Science has shown such and such,” you might ask, “How does science show it? How did the scientists find out? How? What? Where?” It should not be “science has shown” but “this experiment, this effect, has…

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

“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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Lysander Spooner | agents of the people

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

“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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Philip Stott | The fundamental point

“The fundamental point has always been this: climate change is governed by hundreds of factors, or variables, and the very idea that we can manage climate change predictably by understanding and manipulating at the margins one politically-selected factor is as misguided as it gets.” Philip Stott | (Emeritus Professor of Biogeography at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and former Editor of the Journal of Biogeography.) “Der fundamentale Punkt war immer folgender: Klimawandel wird durch hunderte von Faktoren oder Variablen bestimmt; und allein der bloße Gedanke,…

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C.S. Lewis | Of all tyrannies

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a…

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Ingolfur Blühdorn | Politics is losing ground dramatically to the power of the markets

“It has long been obvious in the Western tribal countries of democracy that the promises inherent in this concept will probably remain unfulfilled: Politics is losing ground dramatically to the power of the markets; supposedly democratic systems are firmly in the hands of powerfully organized interests and have less and less to do with popular sovereignty – if there ever was any. Social inequality and the disenfranchisement and reification of citizens as mere administrative objects or human resources are advancing inexorably – though every step of disenfranchisement is communicated as…

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Jacques Élisée Reclus | the policy of hatred always breeds hatred

“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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Howard Zinn | Our problem is civil obedience

“As soon as you say the topic is civil disobedience, you are saying our problem is civil disobedience. That is not our problem…. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. And our problem is that scene in All Quiet on the Western Front where the schoolboys march off dutifully in a line to war. Our problem…

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Coudenhove-Kalergi | Today, democracy is a façade of plutocracy

“The form of constitution that replaced feudalism and absolutism was democracy; the form of government, plutocracy. Today, democracy is a façade of plutocracy: since nations would not tolerate a pure form of plutocracy, they were granted nominal powers, while the real power rests in the hands of plutocrats. In republican as well as monarchical democracies, the statesmen are puppets, the capitalists are the puppeteers; they dictate the guidelines of politics, rule through purchase the public opinion of the voters, and through professional and social relationships, the ministers. Instead of the…

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The Analyst | Die Schäfchen gehen nirgendwo hin. Sie mögen meine Welt

“Im Moment fühlst du dich gut wegen dem, was du getan hast. Das sollten Sie auch. Es war ein Sieg. Bravo. Und was jetzt? Sind Sie hergekommen, um eine Art Deal auszuhandeln? Du denkst, du hast alle Trümpfe in der Hand, weil du in dieser Welt tun kannst, was du willst. Ich sage, greifen Sie zu. Macht es neu. Legt euch ins Zeug. Bemalt den Himmel mit Regenbögen. Aber die Sache ist die. Die Schäfchen gehen nirgendwo hin. Sie mögen meine Welt. Sie wollen diese Sentimentalität nicht. Sie wollen weder…

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Charlie Chaplin | As for politics, I’m an anarchist

“As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.” Charlie Chaplin “Was die Politik angeht, bin ich Anarchist. Ich hasse Regierungen, Regeln und Fesseln. Ich kann eingesperrte Tiere nicht ausstehen. Die Menschen müssen frei sein.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Roland Baader | It is … a naivety that cannot be excused by anything to believe

“It is … a naivety that cannot be excused by anything to believe that a state can be total in the economic sphere without being so at the same time in the political and spiritual sphere ….” … Democracy and socialism are not a tautology (à la Oskar),but radical, mutually exclusive opposites. Democracy is a method of limiting and controlling power. Socialism, on the other hand, always denies the individual freedom of choice of individuals over their economic preferences and life goals (supposedly in favor of the general public, the…

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Michael Wendler | We are living at the peak of the time of the false world

“We are living at the peak of the time of the false world. That’s why being real gets you shunned. Why speaking truth gets you scorned and banned. Society is at the tipping point of the height of illussion. It takes serious courage to be real right now. Please be brave!” Michael Wendler | (Supposedly | Telegram post) “Wir leben auf dem Höhepunkt der Zeit in einer falschen Welt. Deshalb wird man gemieden, wenn man echt ist. Deshalb wird man, wenn man die Wahrheit sagt, verachtet und verbannt. Die Gesellschaft…

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Winston Churchill | There is only published opinion

“There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.” Winston Churchill “So etwas wie eine öffentliche Meinung gibt es nicht. Es gibt nur eine veröffentlichte Meinung.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Niklas Luhmann | the media don’t depict reality, they create it

“Sure, the media don’t depict reality, they create it! And that’s why we need counter-publicity!” Niklas Luhmann “Klar, die Medien bilden die Realität nicht ab, sie erzeugen sie! Und deshalb brauchen wir Gegenöffentlichkeit!” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Paul Felix Lazarsfeld | The power of radio

“The power of radio can be compared only with the power of the atomic bomb.” Paul Felix Lazarsfeld | Sociologist on Modern Propaganda “Die Macht des Radios kann nur mit der Macht der Atombombe verglichen werden” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Wernher von Braun | the last card is the alien card

“And remember Carol, the last card is the alien card. We are going to have to build space-based weapons against aliens and all of it is a lie” Wernher von Braun,1977 (cité par Carol Rosin) “Und denk daran, Carol, die letzte Karte ist die Alien-Karte. Wir werden weltraumgestützte Waffen gegen Außerirdische bauen müssen, und das alles ist eine Lüge.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links “Im Sommer 1977 erhielt die Luft- und Raumfahrtmanagerin Dr. Carol Rosin auf dem Sterbebett ein Geständnis ihres Chefs und Mentors Wernher Von Braun, des erfolgreichen Raketeningenieurs, der…

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Machiavelli | He who has once begun to live by robbery

“He who has once begun to live by robbery will always find pretexts for seizing what belongs to others.” Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli ( 3. Mai 1469 – – 21. Juni 1527) is a statesman, philosopher and theorist of politics, history and war. “Wer einmal begonnen hat, von Raub zu leben, wird immer Vorwände finden, um sich dessen zu bemächtigen, was anderen gehört.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Henry Louis Mencken | The urge to save humanity

“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.” Henry Louis Mencken “Der Drang, die Menschheit zu retten, ist fast immer nur ein Deckmantel für den Drang, sie zu beherrschen. Macht ist das, was alle Messiasse wirklich suchen: nicht die Möglichkeit, zu dienen. Das gilt sogar für die frommen Brüder, die das Evangelium in fremde…

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Marvin Simkin | Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch

“Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote.” Marvin Simkin “Demokratie ist nicht Freiheit. Demokratie sind zwei Wölfe und ein Lamm, die darüber abstimmen, was sie zu Mittag essen. Freiheit kommt von der Anerkennung bestimmter Rechte, die nicht genommen werden dürfen, nicht einmal durch eine 99 %-ige Abstimmung.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Samuel Edward Konkin III | Every victim of statism

“Every victim of statism has internalized the State to some degree. The IRS’s annual proclamation that the income tax depends on “voluntary compliance” is ironically true. Should the taxpayer completely cut off the blood supply, the vampire State would helplessly perish, its unpaid police and army deserting almost immediately, defanging the Monster.” Samuel Edward Konkin III (New Libertarian Manifesto) “Jedes Opfer der Staatsgewalt hat den Staat bis zu einem gewissen Grad verinnerlicht. Die jährliche Botschaft des Finanzamtes, dass die Einkommenssteuer von der “freiwilligen Einhaltung” abhängt, ist ironischerweise wahr. Sollte der…