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"The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state ideology, healthism for short, it becomes a symptom of political sickness." Petr Skrabanek
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"Justice always involves two sides: the one who pays for it and the one who gets it." Ursula von der Leyen
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"If the first half of the twentieth century was the era of the technical engineers, the second half may well be the era of the social engineers — and the twenty-first century, I suppose, will be the era of World Controllers, the scientific caste system and Brave New World. [....] The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work' with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown." Aldous Huxley
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"All government agencies lie part of the time, but NASA is the only one I've ever encountered that does so routinely." George A. Keysworth
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"Approximately 300 men that know each other and that appoint their successors themselves determine the fate of this world. Their power exists in absolute confidentiality." Walter Rathenau
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"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
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"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
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"According to the idea of the NSDAP [Nazi party], we are the German left. Nothing is more hateful to us than the right-wing national ownership block." Joseph Goebbels
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"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
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"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason." Mark Twain
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"It is a great consolation in elections that only one of several candidates can be elected!" Mark Twain