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Arno Gruen | While those who can no longer bear the loss of human values

“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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Friedrich Nietzsche | We live in a system

“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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Albert Einstein | The masses are never militaristic

“The masses are never militaristic until their minds are poisoned by propaganda.” Albert Einstein “Die Massen sind niemals kriegslüstern, solange ihr Verstand nicht durch Propaganda vergiftet ist.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Erich Fromm | The holders of authority and those who take advantage of it

“The holders of authority and those who take advantage of it must convince people of this fiction and put to sleep their realistic, that is to say, critical, faculty of thought. Every thinking person knows the methods of propaganda, methods by which critical judgment is destroyed and the mind is lulled until it submits to clichés that stultify people because they make them dependent, depriving them of the ability to trust their eyes and their judgment. This function, in which they believe, blinds them to reality.” Erich Fromm “Die Inhaber…

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Karl Jaspers | Where is the Federal Republic headed?

“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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Dieter Hallervorden | ‘gendern’ is absurd and rather supervised speech

“The German language as a cultural asset belongs to all of us. No one has a right to tamper with it. I wonder how a politically motivated minority comes to want to dictate to a majority how we want to express ourselves in the future. This unspeakable ,’gendern’ is absurd and rather supervised speech.” Dieter Hallervorden | Der Kabarettist “Die deutsche Sprache als Kulturgut gehört uns allen. Keiner hat ein Recht, darin herumzupfuschen. Ich frage mich, wie eine politisch motivierte Minderheit dazu kommt, einer Mehrheit vorschreiben zu wollen, wie wir…

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Caitlin Johnstone | The empire still fears the public

“The empire still fears the public. If it didn’t it wouldn’t bother rolling out so much propaganda ahead of all its depraved actions—it would just act. They work so hard to manufacture our consent because they’re still afraid of what we’ll do to them if we decide we don’t consent.” Caitlin Johnstone | Autorin „Das Imperium hat immer noch Angst vor der Öffentlichkeit. Wenn es das nicht täte, würde es sich nicht die Mühe machen, so viel Propaganda im Vorfeld all seiner verderblichen Aktionen zu verbreiten – es würde einfach…

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Woody Harrelson | Of course, we live in a completely corrupted world

“Of course, we live in a completely corrupted world where every government is just a bunch of businessmen working for a bunch of bigger businessmen and none of them give a shit about the people. The sad fact is no one knows how to change it, because no one knows how to take on the corporations. So I guess we’re stuck with this system until the oil runs out.” Woodrow Tracy „Woody“ Harrelson ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler “Natürlich leben wir in einer völlig korrupten Welt, in der jede Regierung nur…

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Thomas Jefferson | When government fears the people

“When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” Thomas Jefferson “Wenn die Regierung das Volk fürchtet, gibt es Freiheit. Wenn das Volk die Regierung fürchtet, gibt es Tyrannei.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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George Orwell | If you can feel that staying human is worth while

“If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.” George Orwell “Wenn du fühlen kannst, dass es sich lohnt, menschlich zu bleiben, auch wenn es zu keinem Ergebnis führt, hast du sie besiegt.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Georg Orwell | What counts is that we don’t betray each other

“It’s not so much staying alive, it’s staying human that’s important. What counts is that we don’t betray each other.” Georg Orwell “Es geht nicht so sehr darum, am Leben zu bleiben, es ist wichtig, menschlich zu bleiben. Was zählt, ist, dass wir einander nicht verraten.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Frank Zappa | Schools train people to be ignorant

“Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools* do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don’t give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower. As long as you’re just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you’re gonna…

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Vince Ebert | Political correctness

“Political correctness has now reached a level in our society that I see as highly questionable. It starts with the deletion of more and more postings in the social media. Postings, mind you, with content that is clearly not punishable or otherwise legally actionable. The mere fact that a certain group might feel offended by a text is enough. More and more companies and corporations are joining this unfortunate trend and issuing internal memos about required language rules or how to deal with certain topics, the disregard of which can…

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Karl Kraus | How is the world ruled and led to war?

“How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.” Karl Kraus | (1874 – 1936), österreichischer Schriftsteller, Publizist, Satiriker, Lyriker, Aphoristiker und Dramatiker Quelle: Kraus, Nachts. Aphorismen, 1924. V. 1915 “Wie wird die Welt regiert und in den Krieg geführt? Diplomaten belügen Journalisten und glauben es, wenn sie’s lesen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Noam Chomsky | Therefore it’s important to distract them

“The bewildered herd is a problem. We’ve got to prevent their roar and trampling. We’ve got to distract them. They should be watching the Superbowl or sitcoms or violent movies. Every once in a while you call on them to chant meaningless slogans like “Support our troops.” You’ve got to keep them pretty scared, because unless they’re properly scared and frightened of all kinds of devils that are going to destroy them from outside or inside or somewhere, they may start to think, which is very dangerous, because they’re not…

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Noam Chomsky | why the propaganda system works

“I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them.” Noam Chomsky “Ich denke, es gibt einen guten Grund, warum das Propagandasystem so funktioniert. Es erkennt, dass die Öffentlichkeit die eigentliche Politik nicht unterstützen wird. Deshalb ist es wichtig, jede Kenntnis oder jedes Verständnis von ihnen zu verhindern.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Georges Bernanos | violence in the service of the totalitarian state

“It is not the use of violence that seems to me condemnable, but its mysticism, the religion of violence in the service of the totalitarian state, in the service of the dictatorship of the general welfare, considered not as a means but as an end.” Georges Bernanos (Schriftsteller, wird als “französischer Dostojewski” bezeichnet, “Monsieur Ouine”, “Les Grands Cimetières sous la Lune”, “Nouvelle Histoire de Mouchette” | Frankreich, 1888 – 1948). “Nicht der Gebrauch der Gewalt erscheint mir verdammenswert, sondern ihre Mystik, die Religion der Gewalt im Dienste des totalitären Staates,…

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Winston Churchill | bodyguard of lies

“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” Winston S. Churchill “In Kriegszeiten ist die Wahrheit so kostbar, dass sie immer von einer Leibwache der Lügen begleitet werden sollte.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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George Orwell | The most effective way to destroy people

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” George Orwell “Der effektivste Weg, Menschen zu zerstören, besteht darin, ihr eigenes Verständnis ihrer Geschichte zu leugnen und auszulöschen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Yuval Noah Harari | to gain control over the world

“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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Henry Louis Mencken | The whole drift of our law

“The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society.” Henry Louis Mencken “Die ganze Tendenz unseres Gesetzes geht in Richtung des absoluten Verbots aller Ideen, die in der geringsten Form…

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

“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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Niccolò Machiavelli | majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances

“For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.” Niccolò Machiavelli “Denn die große Mehrheit der Menschen begnügt sich mit dem Schein, als ob er die Wirklichkeit wäre, und lässt sich oft mehr von den scheinbaren als von den wirklichen Dingen beeinflussen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Gore Vidal | The modern dictatorship doesn’t come with brown or black uniforms

“What is a president, then? He is the mouthpiece of the corporations – and nothing else. [….] We are no longer a democracy. We gave up our constitution long ago. [….] The modern dictatorship doesn’t come with brown or black uniforms. We do it with entertainment, with television, with fun, fun. And an education that dumbs down.” Gore Vidal, US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Politiker, „Stern“ Nr. 36/2000 “Was ist denn ein Präsident? Er ist das Sprachrohr der Konzerne – und sonst gar nichts. [….] Wir sind keine Demokratie mehr. Wir haben…

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Clarence Darrow | You can only be free if I am free

“You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free. ” Clarence Darrow (war ein amerikanischer Anwalt, Mitglied der American Civil Liberties Union und ein Gegner der Todesstrafe.) “Du kannst deine Freiheiten in dieser Welt nur schützen, indem du die Freiheit des anderen schützt. Du kannst nur frei sein, wenn ich frei bin.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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General Aladeen | Why are you guys so anti-dictators?

“Why are you guys so anti-dictators? Imagine if America was a dictatorship. You could let 1% of the people have all the nation’s wealth. You could help your rich friends get richer by cutting their taxes. And bailing them out when they gamble and lose. You could ignore the needs of the poor for health care and education. Your media would appear free, but would secretly be controlled by one person and his family. You could wiretap phones. You could torture foreign prisoners. You could have rigged elections. You could…

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George Orwell | These people don’t see that

“These people don’t see that if you encourage totalitarian methods, the time may come when they will be used against you instead of for you.” George Orwell “Die Menschen erkennen nicht, dass bei Befürwortung totalitärer Methoden die Zeit kommen kann, in denen sie gegen statt für einen eingesetzt werden.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Bertrand Russell | Fear is the main source of superstition

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” Bertrand Russell ( Unpopular Essays | Philosoph, Mathematiker, 1950 Nobelpreis für Literatur, sein Werk „Principia Mathematica“ gilt als eines der richtungsweisendsten Werke des 20. Jahrhunderts, England, 1872 – 1970). “Angst ist die Hauptquelle des Aberglaubens und eine der Hauptquellen der Grausamkeit. Die Überwindung der Angst ist der Beginn der Weisheit.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…