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Yuval Noah Harari | to gain control over the world

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“I mean science, as an institution, is interested in gaining the power — to gain control over the world — to be able to gain control over diseases, over the human body, over the environment, over rivers and animals and forests. You have to submit a grant to somebody to fund, it all comes down to money, in many cases. It’s also an institution- If you’re a freelance scientist, you just explore the truth. Okay. But in an institution, a university, you need money to finance so you submit a…

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Karl Jaspers | Where is the Federal Republic headed?

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“Every four years it elects the Bundestag. The lists or persons submitted to it by the parties are already elected beforehand by the parties. The process of this hidden preliminary election, which is the actual election, is convoluted; the names for the constituency lists and the state lists are not drawn up in the same way. But it is always the party committees, never the people, who would be involved in this decisive beginning. One must be a party member in order to participate somewhere in this election and to…

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Edmund Burke | Their passions forge their fetters

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“Until you could make out practically that great work, a combination of opposing forces, “a work of labour long, and endless praise,” the utmost caution ought to have been used in the reduction of the royal power, which alone was capable of holding together the comparatively heterogeneous mass of your states. But at this day, all these considerations are unreasonable. To what end should we discuss the limitations of royal power? Your king is in prison. Why speculate on the measure and standard of liberty? I doubt much, very much…

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Idi Amin Dada | cannot guarantee freedom after speech

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“There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech.” Idi Amin Dada | (war von 1971 bis 1979 das diktatorisch regierende Staatsoberhaupt Ugandas.) “Es gibt Redefreiheit, aber ich kann die Freiheit nach der Rede nicht garantieren.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Don Pettit | The only limit to human future is in our own imagination

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“I’d go to the moon in a Nanosecond, but the Problem is that we no longer have that technology to do that anymore, we used to have it, but we destroyed it and it’s a painful process to build it back again, but going to Mars should be one of the next series of steps that humans do. The first step should be going back to the Moon for a number of technical reasons and exploration reasons. And then after that Mars, maybe high orbit in Venus atmosphere maybe going…

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Barack Obama | Ordinary men and women are too small-minded

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“Ordinary men and women are too small-minded to govern their own affairs, that order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign.” Barack Hussein Obama II (Präsident Obama spricht im Palais des Beaux Arts) “Gewöhnliche Männer und Frauen sind zu kleingeistig, um ihre eigenen Angelegenheiten zu regeln. Ordnung und Fortschritt können nur entstehen, wenn der Einzelne seine Rechte an einen allmächtigen Souverän abtritt.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Friedrich August von Hayek | all forms of collectivism lead eventually to tyranny

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“Through the inevitable mismanagement of resources and goods at the disposal of the state, all forms of collectivism lead eventually to tyranny.” Friedrich August von Hayek “Durch die unvermeidliche Misswirtschaft der Ressourcen und Güter, die dem Staat zur Verfügung stehen, führen alle Formen des Kollektivismus schließlich zur Tyrannei.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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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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Tom Clancy | What the government is good at is collecting taxes

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“What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” Tom Clancy (Thomas „Tom“ Leo Clancy Jr. | war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller) “Die Regierung ist gut darin, Steuern einzutreiben, Freiheiten zu nehmen und Menschen zu töten. Sonst taugt sie nicht viel.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Erich Fromm | Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable

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“Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable; hence any social, political, and religious system which proclaims freedom, yet stamps out disobedience, cannot speak the truth.” Erich Fromm “In der Tat sind Freiheit und die Fähigkeit zum Ungehorsam untrennbar, daher kann jedes soziale, politische und religiöse System, das Freiheit proklamiert, aber Ungehorsam ausmerzt, nicht die Wahrheit sagen” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Roland Baader | Let us free ourselves from the true evil (state counterfeit money)

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“It may be too late to avert the financial disaster that lies ahead of us, but we must at least prevent the road to financial ruin from also becoming a road to servitude. Let’s talk our heads off and write our fingers to the bone, let’s make ourselves outsiders and ridiculed figures if necessary, but let’s fight to ensure that the basis of people’s freedom, the market economy, is not presented to them as the alleged culprit and executed by the henchmen of power under the false pretext. Otherwise, it…

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Benjamin Constant | When you pay the representatives of the people

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“When you pay the representatives of the people, you do not arouse in them an interest in performing their functions conscientiously; rather, you interest them only in continuing to secure for themselves the exercise of those functions.” Benjamin Constant | eigentlich Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque “Wenn man die Vertreter des Volkes bezahlt, so weckt man in ihnen nicht das Interesse, ihre Funktionen gewissenhaft zu erfüllen, man interessiert sie vielmehr nur daran, sich die Ausübung dieser Funktionen auch weiterhin zu sichern.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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John Edgar Hoover | a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists

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“The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.” John Edgar Hoover | Gründer und Ex-Direktor des FBI “Der Einzelne hat das Problem, dass er mit einer so monströsen Verschwörung konfrontiert ist, dass er nicht glauben kann, dass sie existiert….

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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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Ayn Rand | He is free to evade reality

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“He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.” Ayn Rand “Es steht ihm frei, sich der Realität zu entziehen, es steht ihm frei, seinen Verstand zu verwirren und blindlings jeden Weg zu beschreiten, der ihm gefällt, aber es steht ihm nicht frei, dem Abgrund zu vermeiden, den er nicht sehen will.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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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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Dara O’Briain | Science knows it doesn’t know everything

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“Science knows it doesn’t know everything; otherwise, it’d stop. But just because science doesn’t know everything doesn’t mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.” Dara O’Briain “Die Wissenschaft weiß, dass sie nicht alles weiß, sonst würde sie aufhören. Aber nur weil die Wissenschaft nicht alles weiß, heißt das nicht, dass man die Lücken mit dem Märchen füllen kann, das einem am meisten zusagt.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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George Orwell | Until they become conscious

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“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” George Orwell “Bis sie sich bewusst geworden sind, werden sie niemals rebellieren, und bis sie rebelliert haben, können sie sich nicht bewusst werden.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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George Orwell | A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing

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“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to state this or that or the other, but it is “not done”… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals.” George Orwell “Zu jedem Zeitpunkt gibt es eine Orthodoxie, eine Reihe von Ideen, von denen man…

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Philip Stott | The fundamental point

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“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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Richard Haass | The common enemy of humanity is man

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“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

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“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 …

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“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

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“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…