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Quote by Steve Jobs about reflecting on daily life and making changes when necessaryCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"For the last 33 years, I've looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: if today was the last day of my life, would I want to do what I'm going to do today? And whenever the answer was „no“ for too many days, I knew I had to change something." Steve Jobs
Quote by Manly P. Hall about learning the language of symbolism to unveil hidden truthsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"When the human race learns to read the language of symbolism, a great veil will fall from the eyes of men. They shall then know truth and, more than that, they shall realize that from the beginning truth has been in the world unrecognized, save by a small but gradually increasing number appointed by the Lords of the Dawn as ministers to the needs of human creatures struggling co regain their consciousness of divinity." Manly P. Hall
Quote by George Bernard Shaw about trusting gold over governmentCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold." George Bernhard Shaw
Quote by Comte de Virieu about the secret conspiracy at the Congress of Wilhelmsbad in 1781Copyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"An understanding was reached with the Masons at the Congress of Wilhelmsbad on December 20, 1781 to add the Illuminati hierarchy to the first three degrees of Masonry. On returning home, Comte de Virieu, a Mason from the Martiniste lodge at Lyons, reported: "I can only tell you that all this is very much more serious than you think. The conspiracy which is being woven is so well thought out that it will be impossible for the Monarchy and the Church to escape it."" Comte de Virieu
Quote by Albert Pike about the necessity of fictions and the secret nature of truthCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The Truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason." Albert Pike
Tiffany Madison quote on the relation between gun control, freedom, and forceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly “free” state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot." Tiffany Madison
Albert Pike quote about giving the public their heroes and authorityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We always give the public their heroes. We give the heroes to every faction, and then people once they hear this person say all the right things, we give releases to them because he or she speaks for ‘me’. We say go there go do that and they do it. We give our power to the authorized heroes." Albert Pike
Quote by Thomas Sowell about white slaves in North Africa and blacks in the United StatesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in the Ottoman Empire, decades after blacks were freed in the United States." Thomas Sowell
Milton Friedman quote on freedom and the dangers of restricting civil libertiesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence." Milton Friedman
Quote by Prof. Rainer Mausfeld on the illusion of democracy and power dynamicsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"But what could make democracy attractive to the powerful, whose very power it limits and threatens? The answer is quite simple: Nothing! For democracy means precisely to restrict the power needs of the powerful and the rich, in which they naturally have no interest. This now results in a tension between the needs of the rulers to stabilize their status and our need to feel socially autonomous and self-determined with regard to our social situation. In history, this fundamental tension has often been discharged in the form of revolutions. From the point of view of the rulers, how can this tension be defused if we want to avoid bloody revolutions? The solution lies in 'satisfying' the citizens' need for freedom with a surrogate, with a substitute drug, namely the illusion of democracy. To create such an illusion of democracy, one needs above all - and this is where the herd metaphor comes into play again - an ideology of justification that justifies why the people are immature and in need of leadership. Furthermore, the idea of democracy, which is so attractive to the people, must be emptied of its meaning so that it is limited only to an electoral act. And finally, continuous democracy management is needed to ensure that the people want what they are supposed to want in the act of voting." Prof. Rainer Mausfeld
Quote about FDA political favoritism and market control by G. Edward GriffinCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Secondly, as a result of this political favoritism, the FDA has become a primary factor in that formula whereby cartel-oriented companies in the food and drug industry are able to use the police powers of government to harass or destroy their free-market competitors." G. Edward Griffin
Quote about the three main elements of public relations by Edward BernaysCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The three main elements of public relations are practically as old as society: informing people, persuading people, or integrating people with people. Of course, the means and methods of accomplishing these ends have changed as society has changed." Edward Bernays
Quote by Yuval Noah Harari about truth, power, and societyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Truth was never the highest priority of human society. It was the highest priority of some individuals, but never of society as a whole — because society as a whole does not function on the basis of truth. If you take two of the most powerful institutions of humankind — science and the scientific community, and religion and churches — neither of them has truth as their chief value. For individuals, yes. But as institutions, no. The chief value of science is power. The chief value of religion is order — organization. Religion is all about maintaining order in society, and science is mainly about gaining power." Yuval Noah Harari