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Inspirational quote by Steve Jobs about crazy ones, misfits and rebels who change the worldCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." Steve Jobs
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
Inspirational quote by Steve Jobs about crazy ones, misfits and rebels who change the worldCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." Steve Jobs
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
Brian Tracy quote about how clear goals and big goals fuel achievement and drive successCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. The bigger your goals and the clearer they are, the more excited you become about achieving them. The more you think about your goals, the greater becomes your inner drive and desire to accomplish them." Brian Tracy
Russell M. Nelson quote about missionary service and spiritual destinyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one's conversion, worthiness, and preparation." Russell M. Nelson
Inspirational enthusiasm and success quote graphic by Henry FordCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas." Henry Ford
Hans-Peter Dürr quote image about future models, imagination, and optimismCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We need models for the future that don’t paint everything as bleak and gloomy, but rather set worthwhile goals. I would like human society to take a more optimistic approach to planning for the future. We should encourage individuals to use their imagination to make even small changes. That, in fact, is the concept of the future." Hans-Peter Dürr
John Taylor Gatto quote about schooling, exceptional talent, and unconventional educationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (...)Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed." John Taylor Gatto
John Taylor Gatto quote about schooling and indoctrinationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Looking back on a 30-year teaching career full of rewards and prizes, somehow I can't completely believe that I spent my time on earth institutionalized; I can't believe that centralized schooling is allowed to exist at all as a gigantic indoctrination and sorting machine, robbing people of their children. Did it really happen? Was this my life? God help me." John Taylor Gatto
Neil Postman quote about school, socialization, citizenship, and being part of a groupCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"School has never really been about individualized learning, but about how to be socialized as a citizen and as a human being, so that we, we have important rules in school, always emphasizing the fact that one is part of a group." Neil Postman
Thomas Sowell quote about the dangers of educated ignoranceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields." Thomas Sowell
John Taylor Gatto quote about school, disassociation, and meaningless competitionCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion on a daily basis, pitting potential associates against one another in contests for praise and other worthless prizes." John Taylor Gatto
Quote by Viktor Schauberger about science being controlled and a call for freedomCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I will return to my forest to die in peace. The whole of science and all its appendages are just a bunch of thieves hanging like marionettes on strings and having to dance to whatever tune their well-hidden slave masters deem necessary." Viktor Schauberger
Quote by Etienne de Harven discussing viral epidemics and the role of fearmongering by media and pharmaceutical industryCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We are not witnessing viral epidemics; we are witnessing epidemics of fear. And both the media and the pharmaceutical industry carry most of the responsibility for amplifying fears, fears that happen, incidentally, to always ignite fantastically profitable business. Research hypotheses covering these areas of virus research are practically never scientifically verified with appropriate controls. Instead, they are established by "consensus." This is then rapidly reshaped into a dogma, efficiently perpetuated in a quasi-religious manner by the media, including ensuring that research funding is restricted to projects supporting the dogma, excluding research into alternative hypotheses. An important tool to keep dissenting voices out of the debate is censorship at various levels ranging from the popular media to scientific publications." Etienne de Harven
Quote by Vince Ebert about science versus theology and the importance of checking assumptionsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"For example, if I suspect that there might still be beer in the fridge and I check, then in principle I'm already doing a preliminary form of science. Big difference to theology. In theology, assumptions are not usually tested. So if I just say “there's beer in the fridge”, I'm a theologian. If I look, I'm a scientist. If I look, find nothing and still claim there's beer in it - then I'm an esoteric!" Vince Ebert
Quote about time travel and space-time by Stephen HawkingCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Since we can’t change the way the universe began, the question of whether time travel is possible is one of whether we can subsequently make space–time so warped that one can go back to the past. I think this is an important subject for research, but one has to be careful not to be labelled a crank. If one made a research grant application to work on time travel it would be dismissed immediately. No government agency could afford to be seen to be spending public money on anything as way out as time travel. Instead one has to use technical terms like closed time-like curves, which are code for time travel. Yet it is a very serious question." Stephen Hawking
Quote on particle physics by Alexander Unzicker about the misuse of language and money in fundamental physics researchCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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The sensational news that a fundamental particle has been discovered is somewhere between a misuse of language and a lie. What was found did not solve a single problem in physics, and yet was immediately celebrated as the discovery of the century. Whether this was deliberate misdirection, shameless puffery or foolish parroting remains to be seen. [...] The idea of tens of thousands of physicists conducting an unmanageable experiment on a nonsensical theoretical model, seems to prohibit itself. It is too painful to even consider. But this is soberly true. Particle physics is money thrown away.” Alexander Unzicker
Quote by Lena Böllinger about the consequences of market forces on healthcare and societal sacrificeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"To put it bluntly, one could also say: we accept deaths and sacrifice freedoms and fundamental rights because we have left hospitals and elderly care to aggressive market forces and ultimately ruined them with cost-cutting measures." Lena Böllinger
Quote about freedom and society by Unbekannt emphasizing the power of an angry minorityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Before the pandemic, I thought that the masses didn't know what was going on in the world because they didn't have enough time to educate themselves. I now realize that's not a good excuse. The average beer drinker who is addicted to “Love Island” and other reality shows had enough time to do their research and realize who controls our world and how they do it, but they chose not to. Ignorance is a choice, and that choice is costing us our rights and freedom. The average person doesn't want to know the truth; there is no thirst for knowledge, no inner desire to regain our freedom or protect our children's rights. As long as people have enough bread, entertainment, and beer to drink away their worries and celebrate “their” victories, they are quite content to be ruled. In fact, they enjoy it because it relieves them of their personal responsibilities. So it's a good thing that the future of society lies in the hands of an angry and tireless minority, not a sleeping majority. You can call them “conspiracy theorists.” I call them freedom activists, servants of truth. It doesn't take a majority to win, just an angry and tireless minority willing to light the fires of freedom in the minds of the people." Unbekannt
Quote by Guido Westerwelle about the silent threat to freedom and civil rights in GermanyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The threat to freedom in Germany does not come with violence and noise, but rather quietly. It comes with all sorts of justifications, often well-intentioned ones. For example, when it comes to civil rights. In times when we are all concerned about the threat of terrorism, when we all naturally have to do everything we can for our citizens so that they can live happy lives unharmed. In times like these, parties and politicians come along and say, 'Now is the time to once again gradually reduce civil rights, which always bother us a little anyway. Freedom always dies inch by inch, as Karl Herrman Flach once put it. And freedom does not die because of politicians, it does not die because politicians want to restrict civil rights and liberties, but rather it becomes dangerous for freedom when citizens forget their own immune system, which must arm them against any threat to freedom. And for me, that is the decisive self-image of our party. That we say: For us, the citizen comes first and then the state. Other parties trust the state first and only then trust the citizens. Under the pretext of creating security, every civil right can be called into question. Under the pretext that security requires it, every tightening of the law can be decided. We fight this wherever we can, in the federal government, in parliament, but ladies and gentlemen, we also need the citizens. We also need self-confident citizens who do not accept the statement: “If you have nothing to hide, you should not complain.” No, we want a nation of self-confident citizens, not subjects of the state." Guido Westerwelle
Quote about peace, freedom, and truth by Karl JaspersCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Peace is only possible through freedom, freedom only through truth. Therefore, untruth is the real evil that destroys all peace: untruth ranging from concealment to blind indifference, from lies to inner dishonesty, from thoughtlessness to doctrinaire fanaticism, from the untruthfulness of the individual to the untruthfulness of the public sphere." Karl Jaspers
Quote by Tímea Babos explaining her decision to skip the Australian Open due to Covid measuresCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I have made the decision to skip the Australian Open next year after X years because I have reached a point in my career where fame is not everything. I cannot identify with the Australian government's Covid measures, the possible quarantine requirement, and the Covid camps also put me off. I can honestly say that I would not travel to Australia with peace of mind, either for the singles qualifiers or for my favorite doubles team." Tímea Babos
Freedom quote by Joost A.M. Meerloo highlighting the balance of power and responsibility in democracyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Freedom can never be completely safeguarded by rules and laws. It is as much dependent on the courage, integrity, and responsibility of each of us as it is on these qualities in those who govern. Every trait in us and our leaders which points to passive submission to mere power betrays democratic freedom. In our American system of democratic government, three different powerful branches serve to check each other, the executive, the legislative, and the judiciary. Yet when there is no will to prevent encroachment of the power of one by any of the others, this system of checks, too, can degenerate." Joost A.M. Meerloo
Censorship is the younger of two shameful sisters; the older is called the Inquisition quote by Johann Nepomuk NestroyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Censorship is the younger of two shameful sisters; the older is called the Inquisition. Censorship is the living confession of the powerful that they can only rule over dumbed-down slaves, but not free peoples." Johann Nepomuk Nestroy
Inspirational freedom quote by Franz Grillparzer about the spirit making a person free or a slaveCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We hear statements such as “This is a free country” or “This is a dictatorship where there is no freedom.” However, these are vague assertions in which the meaning of freedom is not real. One person may feel very free in a totalitarian regime, while another living in a democracy may feel the chains of slavery on their shoulders, weighing down every step they take. The chains of slavery only bind our hands: it is the spirit that makes a person free or a slave." Franz Grillparzer
Quote by George Washington about freedom, arms, and self-defenseCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"A free people must not only be armed and disciplined. They should also be sufficiently equipped with weapons and ammunition to defend their independence at any time against anyone who attempts to abuse them. This includes, in particular, their own government." George Washington
Aldous Huxley quote about mental health, normality, and societyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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""Our "increasing mental sickness" may find expression in neurotic symptoms. These symptoms are conspicuous and extremely distressing. But "let us beware," says Dr. Fromm, "of defining mental hygiene as the prevention of symptoms. Symptoms as such are not our enemy, but our friend; where there are symptoms there is conflict, and conflict always indicates that the forces of life which strive for integration and happiness are still fighting." The really hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. "Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does." They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted, still cherish "the illusion of individuality," but in fact they have been to a great extent deindividualized. Their conformity is developing into something like uniformity. But "uniformity and freedom are incompatible. Uniformity and mental health are incompatible too. . . . Man is not made to be an automaton, and if he becomes one, the basis for mental health is destroyed.”" Aldous Huxley
Healing and chiropractic quote image by B. J. PalmerCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Healing is a process afforded you by your Creator and is above and beyond the control of man. Your Chiropractor does everything possible to help Innate heal-but he cannot heal nor can anyone else produce healing for you. When the right adjustment is made, Innate goes to work. You feel the results when dis-ease turns to ease." B. J. Palmer
Aldous Huxley quote about mental illness, normality, and societyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society." Aldous Huxley
Healing the mind will heal the body quote by Ralph Waldo TrineCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The time will come when the work of the physician will not be to treat and attempt to heal the body, but to heal the mind, which in turn will heal the body. The true physician will be a teacher; his or her work will be to keep people well, instead of trying to heal them after sickness." Ralph Waldo Trine
Quote about democracy by Ramin Peymani on a textured backgroundCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We are governed by limited people, whom limited people help to achieve majorities, with whom they make policies for limited people. This is the logic inherent in democracies, because due to the fundamental structure of the state form, in the end the dumbest prevail." Ramin Peymani
Quote by John Holdren on global population control and planetary regimeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"A planetary regime might be given the authority to determine the optimal population for the world as a whole and for each region, and to allocate shares to various countries within their regional boundaries. Control of population size might remain the responsibility of each government, but the regime would have some power to enforce agreed limits." John Holdren
Quote on political powerlessness of the majority by Prof. Rainer MausfeldCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"70% of the population — namely the lower 70% on the income and wealth scale — have absolutely no influence on political decisions. Yes, it is no wonder that the population sinks into apathy and lethargy and then seeks refuge in some political positions with an ugly face, hoping that through them they can regain some influence at all." Prof. Rainer Mausfeld
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
Neil Postman quote about voting, polling, political impotence, and the news mediaCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing." Neil Postman
Milton Friedman quote image about the three primary functions of government, freedom, and the role of the stateCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. When government-- in pursuit of good intentions tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player." Milton Friedman
What Is Government? quote image by Harry BrowneCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"So what is government?... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such as the Mafia. So to be more precise, government is the agency of coercion that has flags in front of its offices." Harry Browne
Quote by Louis Thomas McFadden exposing the Federal Reserve Banks as private credit monopoliesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are US government institutions. They are not... they are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the US for the benefit of themselves and their foreign and domestic swindlers, and rich and predatory money lenders. The sack of the United States by the Fed is the greatest crime in history. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers, but the truth is the Fed has usurped the government. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will." Louis Thomas McFadden
Quote by Michael Ruppert about Republicans and Democrats being like organized crime familiesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It’s organized crime. All you do is you call the Republicans the Genoveses and you call the Democrats the Gambinos. The people at the top, they treat it like a crap game. It’s their crap game, like they’re making lots of money. Occasionally, somebody at the table shoots each other, but the moment anything threatens their crap game, they all unite to protect it. ... They’re both controlled by the same financial, economic and corporate interests." Michael Ruppert
Quote by Roland Baader about how every decline in the value of money is caused by the state.Copyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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""...Every decline in the value of money is caused and organized by the state. Paper money and the central bank monopoly are the great super-tricks used to camouflage the violent nature of the state and the predatory basic pattern of ALL politics. Very few citizens are truly aware of the unimaginable extent to which they have been exploited for generations by the combination of progressive income tax and inflation, robbing them of the fruits of their labor."" Roland Baader
John Lennon quote on cocaine, LSD, and freedomCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I've had cocaine, but I don't like it. The Beatles had lots of it in their day, but it's a dumb drug, because you have to have another one 20 minutes later. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. Really, I find caffeine is easier to deal with. … A little mushroom or peyote is not beyond my scope, you know, maybe twice a year or something. You don't hear about it anymore, but people are still visiting the cosmos. We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget. … They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom. Sometimes it works in mysterious ways its wonders to perform." John Lennon
Quote by Ludwig von Mises about credit expansion and economic crisesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"There is no way to prevent the final collapse of a boom generated by credit expansion. The only alternative is either an earlier crisis resulting from the voluntary termination of credit expansion, or a later, final, and total catastrophe for the currency system involved." Ludwig von Mises
Quote by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about pharmaceutical industry influence over FDA, WHO, and CDC budgetsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The FDA receives 45% of its annual budget from the pharmaceutical industry. The World Health Organization (WHO) gets roughly 50% of its budget from private sources, including Big Pharma and its allied foundations. And the CDC, frankly, is a vaccine company; it owns 56 vaccine patents and buys and (very profitably) distributes $4.6 billion in vaccines annually through the Vaccines for Children program, which represents over 40% of its total budget." Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Quote by J.B. Handley revealing the funding sources of the American Academy of PediatricsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) derives a majority of its outside contributions – estimated at more than $25 million per year – from pharmaceutical companies that make vaccines. The pediatricians that the AAP represents derive the majority of their annual revenues from the administration of vaccines to their pediatric patients." J.B. Handley
Quote by Russell L. Blaylock about Rockefeller Foundation's influence on orthodox medicineCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Who created orthodox medicine? Where did that come from? Well, it actually came from the Rockefeller Foundation back in 1901. Because of the Standard Oil scandals, no one wanted to be called a Rockefeller. Everybody hated all the Rockefellers. And so . . . Reverend Gates went to John D. Rockefeller, Sr. and told him, he said, "Here's a way we can repair your reputation. And he gave him a good example. He said, "There was this man who everybody hated . . . and he started giving money out for all sorts of philanthropic enterprises, and soon people forgot all of the bad things. . . ." Because Gates' father was a physician, and John D. Rockefeller's father was a quack snake-oil salesman, he said, "Let's form the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research." And so they created this in 1901. . . . Rockefeller owned what was called the drug trust: that's the major drug manufacturing firms all over the world: Merck Pharmaceuticals, Lederle, all of these . . . pharmaceutical companies . . . And of course, the aim was to remove all nutrition, references to nutritional type treatments, from the medical schools. "They closed down half the medical schools in the United States. There were 165 medical schools at the time. . . . Then [Rockefeller] had his anointed medical schools, which he poured his money into, appointed the professors from his own stock of professors. And so they created an educational system that taught the things that he wanted taught. And therefore every professor that came out of those programs taught the same thing."" Russell L. Blaylock
Quote by Aldous Huxley about the power elite manipulating millions through factories, media, and financeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country´s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody. To parody the words of W. Churchill, never have so many been manipulated so much by few." Aldous Huxley