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Quote by Larken Rose about the illusion of government and authorityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The religious belief in authority aims at the enslavement of the mind. It teaches people that it is moral and good to hand over their time, energy, property, freedom, and self-determination to a ruling class. The enslavement of the mind makes the enslavement of the body unnecessary. In truth, the belief in "government" is a religion, made up of a set of dogmatic teachings, irrational doctrines which fly in the face of both evidence and logic, and which are methodically memorized and repeated by the faithful. Like other religions, the gospel of "government" describes a superhuman, supernatural entity, above mere mortals, which issues commandments to the peasantry, for whom unquestioning obedience is a moral imperative." Larken Rose
Quote by José Luis Sampedro about media influence on public opinion and powerCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Public opinion is influenced by the media and the media are in the hands of those who rule and those who rule favor those who say what is convenient for them and erase everything that does not suit them. So public opinion is, above all, media opinion." José Luis Sampedro Sáez
Quote about power and science by Michael CrichtonCopyright © 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. You don’t play ball with the power structure, you don’t get money for research, you don’t get an appointment, you don’t get published, in short you don’t count anymore. You’re out. You might as well be dead." Michael Crichton
Quote by Ayn Rand about society’s virtue, corruption, and moral declineCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion- When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing- when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors- when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you- when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – you may know that your society is doomed." Ayn Rand
Quote by Edward Bernays about the invisible government shaping public opinionCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. …In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons…who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind." Edward Bernays
Quote by Prof. Dr. Knut Löschke expressing social criticism and calls for appreciation in GermanyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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""I'm fed up, or to put it even more clearly: I'm fed up with the permanent and increasingly religious climate gibberish, with energy turnaround fantasies, with electric car worship, with scary stories about doomsday scenarios from Corona to conflagrations to weather catastrophes. I can no longer stand the people who shout this into microphones and cameras every day or print it in newspapers. I suffer from having to witness how natural science is turned into a whore of politics. I am tired of being told what to be ashamed of by abused, pubescent children. I am tired of being told by some deranged people that I am to blame for everything and everyone - but especially as a German for the past, present and future misery of the whole world. I am tired of religious and sexual minorities, who shamelessly exploit their well-defined minority rights with non-stop media support, trying to tell me what I can and cannot do and say. I am fed up with people who are completely out of their minds, who ruin my German mother tongue and who think they have to teach me how to write and speak in a way that is appropriate for the mainstream. I'm tired of seeing how completely uneducated people, who have done nothing in their lives but carry a foreign briefcase, believe they can rule Germany. I can't stand it any more when, under the pretext of a "colorful society", justice and security disappear and when, in the evening, coming out of the central station, one has to step over dirt, filth, homeless people, drug addicts and procuring criminals, past scribbled walls. I would like my country to value and support the people, regardless of gender, skin color and origin, whose hard-working, productive and value-creating work produces the wealth of the entire society every day: the employees in companies, the craftsmen, the freelancers, the many committed and socially active entrepreneurs in small and medium-sized businesses. I want the teachers of our children, the doctors and nurses of our sick and needy to receive the recognition, appreciation and support they deserve every day. I want the young and the impetuous to let off steam within the well-established boundaries of our legal space, but also to bow down to their parents and grandparents, to the old and the experienced, because they are the creators of their prosperity and freedom."" Prof. Dr. Knut Löschke