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Ludwig von Mises | Nothing can make a demagogue more popular today

“Nothing can make a demagogue more popular today than when he repeatedly calls for sharp taxes against the rich […] Wealth levies and high income taxes on the larger incomes are quite extraordinarily popular with the masses who do not have to pay them.” Ludwig von Mises | Ein Lexikon: Von A wie Anarchismus bis Z wie Zwang “Nichts kann einen Demagogen heute volkstümlicher machen, als wenn er immer wieder scharfe Steuern gegen die Reichen fordert […] Vermögensabgaben und hohe Einkommensteuern für die größeren Einkommen sind bei den Massen, die…

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Roland Baader | Ecologism is a decay product of Marxism

“Ecologism is (among quite a few other ism) a decay product of Marxism. The failed “impoverishment thesis” is replaced by the eco- and climate catastrophe. The goal is the extinction of capitalism – and thus of Western freedom.” Roland Baader “Der Ökologismus ist (unter etlichen anderen Ismen) ein Zerfallsprodukt des Marxismus. Die gescheiterte „Verelendungsthese“ wird durch die Öko- und Klimakatastrophe ersetzt. Ziel ist die Auslöschung des Kapitalismus – und damit der westlichen Freiheit.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Tony Benn | I think there are two ways in which people are controlled

“I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all, frighten people, and secondly, demoralise them. [….]An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern. And I think there’s an element in the thinking of some people… ‘We don’t want people to be educated, healthy and confident, because they would get out of control.” Anthony „Tony“ Neil Wedgwood Benn | war ein britischer Politiker der Labour Party. Er gehörte dem House of Commons von 1950 bis 1960 an und erneut von 1963 bis 2000, also…

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Edwin Grant Conklin | Dictators seek to control men’s thoughts

“Dictators seek to control men’s thoughts as well as their bodies and so they attempt to dictate science, education and religion. But dictated education is usually propaganda, dictated history is often mythology, dictated science is pseudo-science.” Edwin Grant Conklin | From Address as retiring president before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Indianapolis (27 Dec 1937). Published in ‘Science and Ethics’, Science (31 Dec 1937), 86, No. 2244, 601. “Diktatoren wollen die Gedanken der Menschen ebenso kontrollieren wie ihre Körper und versuchen daher, Wissenschaft, Bildung und Religion zu…

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George Orwell | Until they become conscious

“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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Doris Lessing | “You are in the process of being indoctrinated”

“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: “You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by…

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

“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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Edward Bernays | If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind

“If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.” Edward Bernays “Wenn wir den Mechanismus und die Motive des Gruppendenkens verstehen, ist es jetzt möglich, die Massen nach unserem Willen zu kontrollieren und zu reglementieren, ohne dass sie es merken.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Volker Pispers | What do you think would be going on here

“What do you think would be going on here, if more people realized what was going on?” Volker Pispers “Was meinen Sie, was hier los wäre, wenn mehr Menschen begreifen würden, was hier los ist?” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Bertolt Brecht | When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible

“When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.” Bertolt Brecht “Wenn sich die Verbrechen häufen, werden sie unsichtbar. Wenn die Leiden unerträglich werden, werden die Schreie nicht mehr gehört. Auch die Schreie fallen wie Regen im Sommer.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Bertolt Brecht | Madness becomes invisible

“Madness becomes invisible when it has reached sufficiently large dimensions.” Bertolt Brecht (allegedly) “Unsichtbar wird der Wahnsinn, wenn er nur genügend große Ausmaße annimmt.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Dave Smith | basic human liberties

“If you believe that the most basic human liberties ought to be contingent on taking a product from a giant pharmaceutical company then you are not liberal or left wing. You’re not a conservative or patriotic. There is only one word to describe you and that is Fascist.” Dave Smith “Wenn Sie glauben, dass die grundlegendsten menschlichen Freiheiten von der Einnahme eines Produkts eines riesigen Pharmakonzerns abhängig gemacht werden sollten, dann sind Sie nicht liberal oder links. Sie sind weder konservativ noch patriotisch. Es gibt nur ein Wort, um Sie…

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Michael Meyen | because it couldn’t learn that anywhere

“The first bachelor generation is just climbing the university chairs. People who are perfectly trained in their craft, who have internalized the hegemonic ideology, and who are good advertising media for a system that needs academic confirmation in order to be able to continue to say ‘democracy’. This generation already determines what ‘good science’ is. It fills journals, conference programs, and so eventually textbooks, lectures, and seminars – with topics, perspectives, and terms it has taken from the political agenda and the tenders linked to it, and which it doesn’t…

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Carl Sagan | The bamboozle has captured us

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” Carl Sagan “Eine der traurigsten Lehren der Geschichte ist diese: Wenn wir lange genug beschwindelt wurden, neigen wir dazu, jeden Beweis des Schwindels abzulehnen. Wir…

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Will Spencer | an alcoholic trying to drink yourself sober

“If your answer to every failure of government is more government, you are like an alcoholic trying to drink yourself sober.” Will Spencer “Wenn deine Antwort auf jedes Versagen des Staats mehr Staat ist, bist du wie ein Alkoholiker, der versucht, sich nüchtern zu saufen. Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Robert A. Heinlein | There is no worse tyranny

“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.” Robert A. Heinlein “Es gibt keine schlimmere Tyrannei, als einen Menschen zu zwingen, für etwas zu bezahlen, das er nicht will, nur weil man glaubt, es wäre gut für ihn.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Gustave Le Bon | The masses have never thirsted after truth

“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.” Gustave Le Bon “Nie haben die Massen nach Wahrheit gedürstet. Von den Tatsachen, die ihnen missfallen, wenden sie sich ab und ziehen…

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Jean-Luc Godard | Cannes is a propaganda tool

“Zelensky’s intervention at the Cannes festival goes without saying if you look at it from the angle of what is called “staging”: a bad actor, a professional comedian, under the eye of other professionals in their own professions. I believe I must have said something along these lines a long time ago. It therefore took the staging of yet another world war and the threat of another catastrophe for us to know that Cannes is a propaganda tool like any other. They propagate Western aesthetics whilst thinking it is not…

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Neil deGrasse Tyson | I’m a fan of what Mark Twain said

“I’m a fan of what Mark Twain said, he said; Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” Neil deGrasse Tyson “Ich bin ein Fan dessen, was Mark Twain sagte, er sagte; Holen Sie sich zuerst Ihre Fakten, und dann können Sie sie so weit verzerren, wie Sie möchten” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Smedley Darlington Butler | I might have given Al Capone a few hints

“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American…

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Rumi | You can beat 40 scholars with one fact

“You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you can’t beat one idiot with 40 facts” Rumi | mewlana_jalaluddin_rumi “Du kannst 40 Gelehrte mit einer Tatsache schlagen, aber du kannst nicht einen Idioten mit 40 Tatsachen schlagen” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Charles T. Tart | If it is not in the media… it did not happen

“If it is not in the media… it did not happen. If it did not happen, but is in the media… we believe it has happened.” Charles T. Tart “Wenn es nicht in den Medien steht, ist es nicht passiert. Wenn es nicht passiert ist, aber in den Medien steht, dann glauben wir, dass es passiert ist.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Erich Limpach | believing yesterday’s lies as today’s truths

“If people continue to allow themselves to be talked into believing yesterday’s lies as today’s truths, then tomorrow’s whip will make them painfully aware, too late, of the dangers that laziness of thought has in its wake.” Erich Limpach (1899 – 1965), deutscher Dichter, Schriftsteller und Aphoristiker “Wenn die Menschen sich weiterhin die Lügen von gestern als die Wahrheiten von heute aufreden lassen, dann wird die Peitsche von morgen ihnen zu spät schmerzhaft bewußt machen, welche Gefahren die Denkfaulheit im Gefolge hat.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Dr. Angela Merkel | all the major decisions did not have a demoscopic majority when they were made

“But that is precisely why I am also deeply convinced that it is right that we have a representative democracy and not a plebiscitary democracy, and that representative democracy gives us the opportunity for certain periods of time to make decisions, then within these periods of time also to campaign for these decisions and thus to change opinions. Looking back at the history of the Federal Republic, we can say that all the major decisions did not have a demoscopic majority when they were made. The introduction of the social…

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Jon Rappoport | Socialism is

“Socialism is: The taking of money (taxes) from some people who work for it and giving it to others who don’t work for it. On a grand scale. The vast expansion of freebies doled out by central government. In order to create and sustain dependence. The government protection of favored persons and corporations, permitting them and aiding them to expand their fortunes without limit, regardless of what crimes they commit in the process. (Monsanto would be a fine example.) The squeezing out of those who would compete with the favored…

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Albert Jay Nock | The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social

“The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.” Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945) American libertarian author, editor, educational theorist, Georgist, social critic “Der Staat ist sowohl in seiner…