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Inspirational Eduardo Galeano quote about each person shining with their own unique lightCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color. Some people’s flames are so still they don’t even flicker in the wind, while others have wild flames that fill the air with sparks. Some foolish flames neither burn nor shed light, but others blaze with life so fiercely that you can’t look at them without blinking, and if you approach you shine in the fire." Eduardo Galeano
Albert Schweitzer quote image about inner fire, human connection, and rekindling the spiritCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." Albert Schweitzer
Rupert Sheldrake quote about creativity and its mysterious originCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it." Rupert Sheldrake
Inspirational Eduardo Galeano quote about each person shining with their own unique lightCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color. Some people’s flames are so still they don’t even flicker in the wind, while others have wild flames that fill the air with sparks. Some foolish flames neither burn nor shed light, but others blaze with life so fiercely that you can’t look at them without blinking, and if you approach you shine in the fire." Eduardo Galeano
Albert Schweitzer quote image about inner fire, human connection, and rekindling the spiritCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." Albert Schweitzer
Rupert Sheldrake quote about creativity and its mysterious originCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it." Rupert Sheldrake
Inspirational Tommy Lasorda quote about loving your work and doing your bestCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"You have got to love what you're doing. No matter what it is. Whatever you undertake in life, if you don't love it, and you don't enjoy it, you are making a big mistake. You have got to love what you are doing. You have to appreciate what you are getting, and you have to do it to the best of your ability." Tommy Lasorda
Jack Ma quote about success, spirit, fortitude, and resilienceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"No matter what your current condition, how or where you grew up, or what education or training you feel you lack, you can be successful in your chosen endeavor. It is spirit, fortitude, and hardiness that matter more than where you start." Jack Ma
Inspirational Novak Djokovic quote image about believing that nothing is impossibleCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In my case, I can sincerely say that nothing is impossible... When I was saying I want to be No. 1 of the world, and I was seven or eight years old, most of the people were laughing at me because it seems like I have one percent of chances to do that, and I've done it." Novak Djokovic
Inspirational quote by Prentice Mulford about focusing on future success rather than past failuresCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"You may be saying: 'I have failed in life and shall always be a failure.' That is because you are ever looking back, living in your failure and thereby bringing to you more failure. Reverse this attitude of mind; work it the other way and live in future success." Prentice Mulford
Walter Lippmann quote about successful politicians and insecurityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies." Walter Lippmann
Henry Ford quote about enthusiasm, accomplishment, and progressCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the spark in your eye, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of your will and your energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasts are fighters, they have fortitude, they have strong qualities. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis." Henry Ford
Quote on comfort and dreams by Unbekannt about comfort zone effectsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Comfort is like a drug. Once you get used to it, it becomes addictive. Give a weak person constant stimulation, good food, and cheap entertainment, and they will abandon their ambitions. Dreams die in the comfort zone." Unbekannt
Inspirational Eduardo Galeano quote about each person shining with their own unique lightCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color. Some people’s flames are so still they don’t even flicker in the wind, while others have wild flames that fill the air with sparks. Some foolish flames neither burn nor shed light, but others blaze with life so fiercely that you can’t look at them without blinking, and if you approach you shine in the fire." Eduardo Galeano
Inspirational quote image by Kevin Sorbo about hard work and following dreamsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Work hard, believe in your dreams, follow your dreams, don't give up, don't let failures hold you back. Those things were preached to me. They've taken a firm rooting system in my beliefs and what I'm passing on to my kids." Kevin Sorbo
Stella McCartney quote about pursuing dreams through hard work and authenticityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It's incredibly important that if you have the dream of having your own house, you don't pretend to be something you're not. Ultimately, it's unsustainable and people will see through. You have to work; you can't expect your dreams to be handed to you on a plate." Stella McCartney
Quote by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. about government education and its influence on childrenCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government's propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They'll fasten the chains to their own ankles." Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
Quote by John Taylor Gatto revealing the hidden lessons taught by school systemsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The well-known school critic and teacher John Taylor Gatto identifies seven lessons as the real teachings of school: Confusing the student Awakening class consciousness Teaching indifference Creating intellectual and emotional dependence Weakening self-confidence and Accustoming students to constant supervision. "School condemns most people to being lowly building blocks in a pyramidal social model. In collaboration with television, schooling robs children of the time they need to develop a unique personality, thereby preventing them from growing up. School has replaced the ‘family curriculum’ with the components of privacy, independence, and social life. In its place has come the factory school, a prison for children's souls that fragments social relationships into networks and cannot be survived without damage." "It replaces the intellectual growth of children with the violent creation of subjects. It kills the curiosity of its subjects, places them in a dense fog of confusion from which many will never be able to free themselves in their entire lives, it blocks their path to individual freedom and denies them the fulfillment that comes with a free spirit."" John Taylor Gatto
Quote by Henry Louis Mencken about the true aim of public educationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else." Henry Louis Mencken
Quote on ethical risks of propaganda in education by Edward BernaysCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to over-advertise an institution and to create in the public mind artificial values. There can be no absolute guarantee against its misuse." Edward Bernays
Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer on why stupidity is more dangerous than maliceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of goodness than malice. Evil can be protested against, exposed, and, if necessary, prevented by force; evil always carries within it the seeds of its own destruction, leaving at least a feeling of unease in people. We are defenseless against stupidity. Neither protests nor force can achieve anything here; reasons do not catch on; facts that contradict one's own prejudices simply do not need to be believedin such cases, the stupid person even becomes critical, and if they are unavoidable, they can simply be dismissed as meaningless isolated cases. Unlike evil people, stupid people are completely satisfied with themselves; indeed, they even become dangerous because they are easily provoked into attacking others. Therefore, we must be more cautious with stupid people than with evil people. ... On closer inspection, it becomes apparent that any strong external display of power, whether political or religious, strikes a large part of humanity with stupidity. ... The Bible verse that says the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom (Proverbs 1:7) tells us that the only real way to overcome stupidity is through the inner liberation of human beings to live responsibly before God." Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower about the dangers of scientific domination and technocratic elite in societyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system–ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society." Dwight D. Eisenhower
Quote by Sam Harris on the importance of intellectual honesty in scienceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The core of science is not controlled experiment or mathetical modeling; it is intellectual honesty. It is time we acknowledge a basic feature of human discourse: when considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn't." Sam Harris
Danny Minot quote about power determining science and thoughtCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Whoever has the power in society determines what can be studied, determines what can be observed, determines what can be thought. Scientists fall in line with the dominant power structure. They have to because the power structure pays the bills." Danny Minot
Quotation by Angela Merkel about conditional approval of vaccines and its effects on millionsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"All of these vaccines have conditional approval. During this conditional approval, we are gathering experience for the first time regarding the question: What happens when this vaccine is applied to millions of people?" Angela Merkel
Quote about medical research and drug industry by Dr. Vernon ColemanCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Most patients probably assume that when a doctor proposes to use an established treatment to conquer a disease he will be using a treatment which has been tested, examined and proven. But this is not the case. The savage truth is that most medical research is organised, paid for, commissioned or subsidised by the drug industry (and the food, tobacco and alcohol industries). This type of research is designed, quite simply, to find evidence showing a new product is of commercial value. The companies which commission such research are not terribly bothered about evidence; what they are looking for are conclusions which will enable them to sell their product. Drug company sponsored research is done more to get good reviews than to find out the truth." Dr. Vernon Coleman
Quote by Dr. Robert Mendelsohn about the inexact science of modern medicineCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Despite the tendency of doctors to call modern medicine an ‚inexact science‘, it is more accurate to say there is practically no science in modern medicine at all. Almost everything doctors do is based on a conjecture, a guess, a clinical impression, a whim, a hope, a wish, an opinion or a belief. In short, everything they do is based on anything but solid scientific evidence. Thus, medicine is not a science at all, but a belief system. Beliefs are held by every religion, including the Religion of Modern Medicine." Dr. Robert Mendelsohn
Quote by John H. Tilden about the challenges of medical science and the concept of diseaseCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"What hope is there for medical science to ever become a true science if the entire structure of medical knowledge is based on the notion that there is an entity called disease that can be driven out once the right drug is found?" John H. Tilden, M.D.
Quote by Dr Fereydoon Batmanghelidj about the pharmaceutical industry and false scienceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The entire existence of the pharmaceutical industry is based on the presentation of false science, the promotion of this false science, and drilling it into the minds of gullible people who lack the curiosity to find out why this is so." Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj
Quote about vaccinations by Dr. med. Gerhard BuchwaldCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Today's vaccinations are based on the same flawed scientific experiments as the smallpox vaccination. Yet we are told that science has made progress. With a single scientific paper confirming the vaccination theory, my book "The Business of Fear" would have had to be permanently removed from the market." Dr. med. Gerhard Buchwald
Quote about freedom of the press by Paul SetheCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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""Freedom of the press is the freedom of two hundred rich people to spread their opinions. As the production of newspapers and magazines requires ever greater capital, the circle of people who publish press organs is becoming smaller and smaller. This makes our dependence ever greater and ever more dangerous. There are oases in the German press where the air of freedom still blows, but how many of my colleagues can say the same? Those who are rich are free. That's not from Karl Marx, but from Paul Sethe. Since journalists are not rich, they are not free either."" Paul Sethe
Quote by Karl Georg Büchner about violence, justice, and fighting against oppressionCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Young people are accused of using violence. But are we not in a perpetual state of violence? Because we were born and raised in prison, we no longer notice that we are stuck in a hole with our hands and feet chained and a gag in our mouths. What do you call a lawful state? A law that turns the vast majority of citizens into servile cattle in order to satisfy the unnatural needs of an insignificant and corrupt minority? And this law, supported by brute military force and the stupid cleverness of its agents, this law is eternal, brute force, contrary to justice and common sense, and I will fight against it with my mouth and my hands wherever I can." Karl Georg Büchner
Quote by Alexander von Humboldt on freedom, diversity, and the impact of state interference on societyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The true purpose of man, not that which is dictated by changing inclinations, but that which is dictated by eternal and unchanging reason, is the highest and most proportionate development of his powers into a whole. Freedom is the first and indispensable condition for this development. (...) It is precisely the diversity that arises from the union of many that is the highest good that society offers, and this diversity is certainly always lost to the extent that the state interferes. It is no longer actually the members of a nation who live together in community, but individual subjects who enter into a relationship with the state, i.e., with the spirit that prevails in its government, and indeed into a relationship in which the superior power of the state already inhibits the free play of forces. Uniform causes have uniform effects. The more the state intervenes, the more similar not only everything that acts becomes, but also everything that is acted upon. (...) But anyone who reasons in this way for others is, not without reason, suspected of misunderstanding humanity and wanting to turn people into machines." Alexander von Humboldt
Quote by Prof. Hans Hermann Hoppe about democracy as mob rule and soft totalitarianism in GermanyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is mob rule—incited by demagogues and steered in an unstable manner. German democracy in particular displays traits of a soft totalitarianism, marked by pervasive self-censorship that is often scarcely even recognized as such." Prof. Hans Hermann Hoppe
Quote on freedom and power by Claude Frédéric BastiatCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?" Claude Frédéric Bastiat
Quote by Ivan Illich about healthy people, healthy homes, and a healthy environmentCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die." Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich quote about medicine, health, and commercializationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing medicine as a commodity, the larger will be the by-product, namely, the fallacy that society has a supply of health locked away which can be mined and marketed." Ivan Illich
Health and mental attitude quote by Ivan IllichCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Health is not an objective condition which can be understood by the methods of natural science alone. It is rather a condition related to the mental attitude by which the individual has to value what is essential for his life." Ivan Illich
Quote by Ben Stone on the true nature of the State and the illusions of powerCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"On a metaphysical level, the State, whether real or imagined, is a faith based deity existing in the minds of its believers, generally based on a combination of the adoration of a Great Man along with an illogical fear of a Bogeyman in conjunction with an unblinking faith in the political process. That faith in turn relies on a dramatic opera-like performance on the part of politicians as they attempt to appear relevant, while the shadow government of bureaucrats and corporate/banking puppet masters attempts to remain unseen. All the while the State struggles to provide services it claims the monopolistic right to provide, while miserably failing at providing those services. On the occasion that the State's true nature is revealed and its failures exposed, it always responds by sending in waves of lies by actors on all levels, while systematically discrediting, beating down, or murdering anyone who shines the light on those failures. The State relies on an incredibly delicate balancing act between the disinterest of its victims, the imagery of a functioning political process, and faith in government-lead progress toward some mythical idea of a better tomorrow, in contrast with the reality of a non-functional puppet political process and an ever growing ever consuming Beast, driving humanity toward world-wide slavery at best, and species wide destruction as a very real possibility." Ben Stone
Quote by Oswald Spengler describing the German Republic as a company focusing on parties over peopleCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Out of fear for their share of the spoils, the German Republic was born in the grand ducal velvet armchairs and in the pubs of Weimar, not as a form of government, but as a COMPANY. Its statutes do not mention the PEOPLE, but PARTIES; not power, honor, and greatness, but PARTIES. We no longer have a fatherland, but PARTIES; no rights, but PARTIES; no goal, no future, but the interests of PARTIES. And these parties – once again: not sections of the people, but commercial enterprises with a paid bureaucracy, which were to American parties what a junk shop is to a department store – decided to give the ENEMY everything he wanted, to sign every demand, to awaken in him the courage to make ever greater demands, just so that they could pursue their own goals internally." Oswald Spengler
Danny Minot quote about power determining science and thoughtCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Whoever has the power in society determines what can be studied, determines what can be observed, determines what can be thought. Scientists fall in line with the dominant power structure. They have to because the power structure pays the bills." Danny Minot
Ronald Reagan quote about government being the problem and self-governanceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe, that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price." Ronald Reagan
Quote about the Jesuits' political power by Margaret Anna CusackCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The Jesuits are the only religious order in the Church of Rome…which has lain under the ban of the [‘White’] Pope, or which has been expelled from any country because of its interference in politics. Hence we may expect to find that to obtain political power forms a main feature in the plans of the Society [of Jesus – i.e., the Jesuit Order]." Margaret Anna Cusack
Quote about controlled news influence in politics by W. Lance BennettCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Perhaps the most obvious political effect of controlled news is the advantage it gives powerful people in getting their issues on the political agenda and defining those issues in ways likely to influence their resolution." W. Lance Bennett
Quote by Silvio Gesell about the nature of money and capitalismCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Our monetary system gives rise to capitalism, interest, mass poverty, revolt, and ultimately civil war, which leads back to barbarism. Anyone who prefers to exercise their own mind rather than smash the heads of others should study the nature of money." Silvio Gesell
Quote by Edward Mandell House about control, registration, and social insuranceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"[Very] soon, every American will be required to register their biological property in a National system designed to keep track of the people and that will operate under the ancient system of pledging. By such methodology, we can compel people to submit to our agenda, which will affect our security as a chargeback for our fiat paper currency. Every American will be forced to register or suffer not being able to work and earn a living. They will be our chattel, and we will hold the security interest over them forever, by operation of the law merchant under the scheme of secured transactions. Americans, by unknowingly or unwittingly delivering the bills of lading to us will be rendered bankrupt and insolvent, forever to remain economic slaves through taxation, secured by their pledges. They will be stripped of their rights and given a commercial value designed to make us a profit and they will be none the wiser, for not one man in a million could ever figure our plans and, if by accident one or two would figure it out, we have in our arsenal plausible deniability. After all, this is the only logical way to fund government, by floating liens and debt to the registrants in the form of benefits and privileges. This will inevitably reap to us huge profits beyond our wildest expectations and leave every American a contributor or to this fraud which we will call “Social Insurance.” Without realizing it, every American will insure us for any loss we may incur and in this manner; every American will unknowingly be our servant, however begrudgingly. The people will become helpless and without any hope for their redemption and, we will employ the high office of the President of our dummy corporation to foment this plot against America." Edward Mandell House
Quote by Woodrow Wilson about private credit controlling economic freedomCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom." Woodrow Wilson
Quote by Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises about dangers of monetary policy and bankingCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Through the artifices of banking and monetary policy one can achieve only a temporary illusion of improvement, which must ultimately lead to an even more severe catastrophe. For the longer this artificial boom is sustained by the creation of additional credit, the greater the damage inflicted on general prosperity by the use of such measures." Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises
Quote by Woodrow Wilson about the control of the government and the credit systemCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men." Woodrow Wilson