Tag Archive for: Tyranny

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Prince | We’re all indentured servants

"The other thing is the first line of the song says I was born on the same plantation in the United States of the red, white and blue, and we live in a place now that feels just about like a plantation. We're all indentured servants. When I found out there were eight presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody. I wanted to know why I was taught otherwise. Just tell me the whole story - I'll fill in the blanks. But don't tell me something that you think I'm supposed to know."

Prince

George Orwell | The further a society moves away from the truth

"The further a society moves away from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it."

George Orwell

Napoleon Bonaparte | There is no more good-natured, but also no more gullible people

"There is no more good-natured, but also no more gullible people than the Germans. No lie can be conceived treacherous enough, the Germans believe it. They follow a slogan which was given to them, to act against their own countrymen, rather than the real enemies of their country."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Jean-Claude Juncker | step by step until there is no turning back

"We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back."

Jean-Claude Juncker

Hannah Arendt | The real goal of totalitarian ideology

“The real goal of totalitarian ideology is not the transformation of the external conditions of human existence and not the revolutionary reorganization of the social order, but the transformation of human nature itself, which, as it is, constantly opposes the totalitarian process. … What is at stake in total domination is really the essence of man.”

Hannah Arendt

Erich Maria Remarque | I always thought everyone was against war

"I always thought everyone was against war until I found out there are those who are all for it, especially those who do not have to go there."

Erich Maria Remarque

Upton Sinclair | whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy

„Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters.“

Upton Sinclair

Maximilien de Robespierre | The secret of liberty

"The secret of liberty is to enlighten men, as that of tyranny is to keep them in ignorance."

Maximilien de Robespierre

Edward Bernays | Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government

"Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government."

Edward Bernays

Joost A.M. Meerloo | hammering noises of arguments and propaganda

"The continual intrusion into our minds of the hammering noises of arguments and propaganda can lead to two kinds of reactions. It may lead to apathy and indifference, the I-don't-care reaction, or to a more intensified desire to study and to understand. Unfortunately, the first reaction is the more popular one."

Joost A.M. Meerloo

Arthur Versluis | The New Inquisitions

"Totalitarianism is the modern phenomenon of total centralized state power coupled with the obliteration of individual human rights: in the totalized state, there are those in power, and there are the objectified masses, the victims."

Arthur Versluis

Hastings Lionel Baron Ismay | NATO has three tasks

„to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down“

Hastings Lionel Baron Ismay

Friedrich Nietzsche | The State is the coldest of all cold monster

"The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'."

Friedrich Nietzsche

Alexander Solschenizyn | We know they are lying. They know they are lying

"We know they are lying. They know they are lying. They know that we know they are lying. We know that they know that we know they are lying. And still they continue to lie."

Alexander Solschenizyn

Albert Camus | The welfare of the people

"The welfare of the people…has always been the alibi of tyrants…giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience."

Albert Camus

Robert Higgs | politicians will create an emergency so they can break the law.

"If we let politicians break the law in an emergency, politicians will create an emergency so they can break the law."

Robert Higgs

Jordan Maxwell | Nothing in this world operates the way you think it does

"Nothing in this world operates the way you think it does. Banks do not loan money, governments are not empowered to protect you, the police department is not there to serve you, institutions of higher learning, colleges and educational institutes, are not there to educate you. The entire superstructure of civilization in the Western world is a combination of brilliantly put together and planned, well-planned, schemes to direct the minds of the people in such a way as to serve their masters."

Jordan Maxwell

Noam Chomsky | governments will use whatever technology

"Governments should not have this capacity. But governments will use whatever technology is available to them to combat their primary enemy – which is their own population"

Noam Chomsky

George Farquhar | Those who know the least obey the best

"Those who know the least obey the best."

George Farquhar

Herbert George Wells | race between education and catastrophe

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

Herbert George Wells

Willy Brandt | Whoever should once play with the state of emergency

"Whoever should once play with the state of emergency to limit freedom will find my friends and me on the barricades in defense of democracy, and this is meant quite literally."

Willy Brandt

H. L. Mencken | I believe that all government is evil

"I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time."

Henry Louis Mencken

Daniel Neun | One need only translate the terms “conspiracy theorists” as “heretics”

"One need only translate the terms "conspiracy theorists" as "heretics" to know the tradition in which these terms stand and those who use them. Ultimately, it is about the accusation of apostasy from the ruling faith, which is determined by the ruling authorities and majorities. (Faith in this respect can also be translated as ruling doctrine, ideology, etc.). Thus, contrary to the subjective view of many of its users, the terms are themselves expressions of clerical and authoritarian thought structures based on subjugation as a basic psychological pattern. It is denunciatory, inquisitorial. It is directed against classical skepticism. Thus, the main purpose of these terms can only be to discredit "serious conjectures", hypotheses and facts, and thereby prevent real causal research."

Daniel Neun

Anatoliy Golitsyn | Believers think ideology is dying or already dead

"Believers think ideology is dying or already dead and that Gorbachev has abandoned the class struggle and taken the 'capitalist road'. They do not realise that 'perestroika' is an expression of ideological strategy and a practical means of reviving ideology. It is not the abandonment of class struggle but a finesse to secure the defeat of the capitalist democracies by the use of capitalist weapons. The class struggle will yet have its bloody feasts. The Western elite believe they are helping the cause of democracy. In fact they are financing their own demise and digging their own graves. The tragedy is that they will probably not see it until it is too late."

Anatoliy Golitsyn

Bill Hicks | The problem isn’t a lack of money food water or land

"The problem isn't a lack of money food water or land. The problem is that you've given control of these things to a group of greedy psychopaths who care more about maintaining their own power than helping mankind"

Bill Hicks

Ernest Holmes | Practically the whole human race is hypnotized

"Practically the whole human race is hypnotized because it thinks what somebody else told it to think."

Ernest Holmes

Montagu Norman | their energies in fighting for questions of no importance

"Our principal men are forming an imperialism to govern the world. By dividing the voters through the party political system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting for questions of no importance."

Montagu Norman

Theodore Roosevelt | Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government

"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today."

Theodore Roosevelt

Howard Zinn | war, genocide, and slavery – have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience

"Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience."

Howard Zinn

G. Edward Griffin | For if you give the state, the authority to grant you your rights

"For if you give the state, the authority to grant you your rights....in that same breath, you have just given them the authority to also take them away"

G. Edward Griffin