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Inspirational quote by Lao Tzu about how thoughts influence words, actions, habits, character, and destinyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny." Lao Tzu
Inspirational quote by Henri-Louis Bergson about awakening your spiritual immune system and following your heartCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Fortunately, some are born with a spiritual immune system that sooner or later rejects the illusory worldview that has been grafted onto them from birth through social conditioning. They begin to sense that something is wrong, and the search for answers begins. Inner knowledge and abnormal external experiences show them a side of reality that others ignore, and so their journey to awakening begins. Each step of the journey is taken by following the heart rather than following the crowd, and by choosing knowledge rather than the veils of ignorance." Henri-Louis Bergson
Quote by Adolf Hitler about learning from the Jesuit Order and the hierarchical organization of the Catholic ChurchCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I have learnt most of all from the Jesuit Order . . . So far, there has been nothing more imposing on earth than the hierarchical organization of the Catholic Church. A good part of that organization I have transported direct to my own party . . . The Catholic Church must be held up as an example . . . I will tell you a secret. I am founding an Order . . . In Himmler I see our Ignatius de Loyola!" Adolf Hitler
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
Quote by Travis Walton about human perception and realityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I’ve come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people’s perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh of what they want, and do not want, to be true." Travis Walton
Quote by Walter Lippmann about how preconceptions govern the process of perceptionCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception." Walter Lippmann
Quote about universal literacy and propaganda by Edward L. BernaysCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Universal literacy was supposed to educate the common man to control his environment. Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought. Each man's rubber stamps are the duplicates of millions of others, so that when those millions are exposed to the same stimuli, all receive identical imprints. It may seem an exaggeration to say that the American public gets most of its ideas in this wholesale fashion. The mechanism by which ideas are disseminated on a large scale is propaganda, in the broad sense of an organized effort to spread a particular belief or doctrine." Edward L. Bernays
Quote about mental freedom in education by Bertrand RussellCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The conviction that it is important to believe this or that, even if a free inquiry would not support the belief, is one which is common to almost all religions and which inspires all systems of state education...A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree of certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world is suffering. But at present, in most countries, education aims at preventing the growth of such a habit, and men who refuse to profess belief in some system of unfounded dogmas are not considered suitable as teachers of the young… The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing that happiness for all is to be derived rather from cooperation than from strife. I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than at imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them through life against the shafts of impartial evidence. The world needs open hearts and open minds, and it is not through rigid systems, whether old or new, that these can be derived." Bertrand Russell
Quote by Joost A.M. Meerloo about culture, manipulation, and authoritarianismCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Every culture institutionalizes certain forms of behavior that communicate and encourage certain forms of thinking and acting, thus moulding the character of its citizens. To the degree that the individual is made an object of constant mental manipulation, to the degree that cultural institutions may tend to weaken intellectual and spiritual strength, to the degree that knowledge of the mind is used to tame and condition people instead of educating them, to that degree does the culture itself produce men and women who are predisposed to accept an authoritarian way of life." Joost A.M. Meerloo
Quote by Donald Jay Grout about how music influences the soul and shapes characterCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Music directly affects the passions or states of the soul—gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites ... When one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued with the same passion. If over a long time he habitually listens to the kind of music that arouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to that ignoble form. In short, if one listens to the wrong kind of music—he will become the wrong kind of person." Donald Jay Grout
Quote by David Hume on the ease of governing many by few and submission to rulersCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Nothing appears more surprizing to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers." David Hume
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. Vernon Coleman about the pharmaceutical industry's control over medicineCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In the last century the practice of medicine has become no more than an adjunct to the pharmaceutical industry and the other aspects of the huge, powerful and immensely profitable health care industry. Medicine is no longer an independent profession. Doctors have become nothing more than a link connecting the pharmaceutical industry to the consumer." 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 Peter Tauber about the constraints and challenges in politicsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"People have no idea how many constraints there are in politics. Politicians are, to some extent, governed by processes, events, and procedures beyond their control. You are not all-powerful—at times, you are simply powerless." Peter Tauber
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 Bärbel Bas about no two-tier society and no mandatory vaccinationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Even once we have a vaccine and know more about possible immunity, one thing remains clear for us: there must not be a two-tier society of infected and non-infected people. There can be no mandatory vaccination — and there will be none." Bärbel Bas
Inspirational quote on the pandemic by Tobias Levels urging resistance and clarityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"For almost two years now, an alleged pandemic has had us firmly in its grip. Day after day, the media and politicians bombard us with narratives and measures. It’s time we take a stand against it. This may be our last chance. If we go along with it and they achieve their goal, life here will become very uncomfortable for us and for future generations. I hope that resistance and clarity continue to grow—and that we force an end to it." Tobias Levels
Quote about vaccine mandates and individual freedom by Prof. Dr. Dr. Frauke Meta RostalskiCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We must not forget how serious an infringement on fundamental rights a vaccination mandate would be. It does not only interfere with bodily integrity, but also affects an individual’s dignity if vaccination is carried out against their will. Given the significant uncertainty that still exists, I clearly believe that the individual’s interest in freedom outweighs everything else. In this situation, there must be no coercion to get vaccinated." Prof. Dr. Dr. Frauke Meta Rostalski
True democracy knows neither rich nor poor quote by Horst BullaCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"True democracy knows neither rich nor poor! Only those with a truly ‘free spirit’, independent of money, possessions, servitude, and wage labor, independent of state or social constraints and positions, are truly free!" Horst Bulla
Quote about media panic over swine flu by Wolf Dietrich SchneiderCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Swine flu was the first epidemic that was not spread by viruses, but by journalists. It quickly became clear that it was far less dangerous than our old winter flu - that most people were therefore unsuspecting and stupidly participating in the scaremongering by the pharmaceutical industry. Even the most responsible journalists usually lack a sense of proportion. We should keep this in mind: The great killers of humanity are hunger, malaria, AIDS, contaminated drinking water and road traffic." Wolf Dietrich Schneider
Quote about the dangers of Modern Medicine by Dr. Robert MendelsohnCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I no longer believe in Modern Medicine. I believe that despite all the super technology and elite bedside manner... the greatest danger to your health is the doctor who practices Modern Medicine. I believe that Modern Medicine's treatments for disease are seldom effective, and that they're often more dangerous than the disease they're designed to treat. I believe more than 90% of Modern Medicine could disappear from the face of the earth--doctors, hospitals, drugs and equipment---and the effect on our health would be immediate & beneficial.....Modern Medicine can't survive without our faith, because Modern Medicine is neither an art nor a science. It's a religion." Dr. Robert Mendelsohn
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
Quote about goodwill and constructive thought by Prentice MulfordCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Goodwill to others is constructive thought. It helps build you up. It is good for your body. It makes your blood purer, your muscles stronger, and your whole form more symmetrical in shape. It is the real elixir of life. The more such thought you attract to you, the more life you will have." Prentice Mulford
Quote on invisible power structures and democracy by Prof. Rainer MausfeldCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The power structures that have emerged are not democratically legitimized, and they can no longer be voted out of office through any electoral process. The most important power structures in our society are no longer accessible to the voter at all… and one does not want the ordinary citizen to even know that they exist. They are meant to remain invisible within the framework of public debate." Prof. Rainer Mausfeld
Quote by Prof. Dr. Hans Herbert von Arnim about the reality of democracy and political deceptionCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The fundamental problem with our democracy is that it is not one. The people—the nominal ruler and sovereign—have, in reality, nothing to say. … Behind the democratic façade, a system has been installed in which completely different rules apply than those of the Basic Law. The system is undemocratic and corrupt; it abuses power and unscrupulously deceives citizens. … Every German is free to obey laws to which he has never consented; he may admire the majesty of the Basic Law, whose validity he has never legitimized; he is free to pay homage to politicians whom no citizen has ever elected, and to provide for them lavishly—with his tax money, about the use of which he has never been consulted. Overall, the state and politics are in a condition of which only professional optimists or hypocrites can claim it has arisen from the will of the citizens." Prof. Dr. Hans Herbert von Arnim
Quote by Henry Louis Mencken about democracy and the presidencyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." Henry Louis Mencken
Inspirational quote by Leo Tolstoy about power and ruleCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"One might still justify the submission of an entire people to a small number of rulers if those in power were the best among us—but that is not the case, never has been, and never can be. All too often it is the worst, the most insignificant, the most cruel, the most immoral—and especially the most deceitful—who rule. And the fact that this is so is no accident." Leo Tolstoi (Leo Tolstoy)
Quote by Dr. Hans-Joachim Maaz about fear of the virus as a political distractionCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Fear of the virus—fear of getting sick, fear of dying—is the most effective distraction one can politically set in motion: to intimidate people and focus them on that fear so completely that, in the end, you can basically do whatever you want with us." Dr. Hans-Joachim Maaz
Quote by Jimmy Carter on the impact of unlimited political bribery turning America into an oligarchyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it’s just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president. And the same thing applies to governors and U.S. senators and congress members. So now we’ve just seen a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors, who want and expect and sometimes get favors for themselves after the election’s over. … The incumbents, Democrats and Republicans, look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to themselves. Somebody’s who’s already in Congress has a lot more to sell to an avid contributor than somebody who’s just a challenger." Jimmy Carter
Quote by Joe Dubs explaining government as an illusion of authority and mind controlCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Government is the illusion of authority, but more importantly government is mind control. Naturally, since if you want people to believe in this fictitious thing called ‘authority’ you first have to mold the minds of the collective to accept this false ideology. This is what government is. It’s the illusion of some “official” group of people out there who get to tell everybody else what to do and how to do it. The truth is there is no such thing as authority, and government is an illusion that we’ve imposed upon ourselves from the irrational thinking of a controlled mind. It’s generally agreed that the power of government ultimately comes from the people. Governments seem to have rights that individuals do not. And it’s agreed that it is these individuals that make up government. It doesn’t take much critical thinking to realize that individuals are granting power that they don’t possess to a group of other individuals who call themselves ‘government’. One cannot delegate a right that they do not possess individually. This is one of the fundamental reasons why government is completely and utterly fallacious." Joe Dubs
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
Quote about power based on ignorance by Ernst WolffCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The other side may have more money, more possessions, and all the weapons in the world. But their power is based neither on their money, nor on their possessions, nor on their weapons, but solely on one factor, and that is the ignorance of the majority of people." Ernst Wolff
Quote on Catholic Church financial power by Avro ManhattanCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a greater possessor of material riches than any other single institution, corporation, bank, giant trust, government or state of the whole globe. The pope, as the visible ruler of this immense amassment of wealth, is consequently the richest individual of the twentieth century. No one can realistically assess how much he is worth in terms of billions of dollars." Avro Manhattan
Quote by Avro Manhattan about the wealth disparity of the Catholic Church compared to JesusCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Jesus was the poorest of the poor. Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the wealthiest institution on earth. How come, that such an institution, ruling in the name of this same itinerant preacher, whose want was such that he had not even a pillow upon which to rest his head, is now so top-heavy with riches that she can rival – indeed, that she can put to shame – the combined might of the most redoubtable financial trusts, of the most potent industrial super-giants, and of the most prosperous global corporation of the world?" Avro Manhattan