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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
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
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
John Taylor Gatto quote about compulsory schooling and self-relianceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have been rendered permanent children. It’s the architects of forced schooling who are responsible for that." John Taylor Gatto
John Taylor Gatto quote about education, individuality, and living with purposeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges. It should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die." 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
Nassim Nicholas Taleb quote about substance, depth, values, and meaningful progressCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember." Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A motivational quote image about versatility by Robert A. HeinleinCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." Robert A. Heinlein
Quote by Steven Spielberg about science fiction warning us about the futureCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true." Steven Spielberg
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 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
Ayn Rand quote about government ultimate inversion and citizen freedomCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force." Ayn Rand
Quote by Alexis De Tocqueville on democracy and socialism about equality and freedomCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common except a single word: equality. The difference is considerable: while democracy seeks equality in freedom, socialism seeks equality in restriction and subjugation." Alexis De Tocqueville
Quote by Sahra Wagenknecht about vaccination, freedom, and health dictatorshipCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I am waiting for a classic so-called inactivated vaccine, which I would definitely get vaccinated with. I find the pressure currently being exerted on the unvaccinated unspeakable and incompatible with a free society. At most, the unvaccinated endanger themselves and other unvaccinated people. A society that treats unvaccinated people like pariahs would soon have to ban smoking and alcohol consumption, not to mention dangerous hobbies such as climbing or skydiving. That is the path to a health dictatorship, which we will hopefully never become." Sahra Wagenknecht
Inspirational quote by Oscar Wilde about choosing a fulfilling life over hypocrisyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The moment of choice and decision comes for everyone: whether to live their own life, a deeply personal life in its fullest measure, or to settle for that false, shallow, degrading existence that the hypocrisy of the world demands of them." Oscar Wilde
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 by Anthony R. Mawson about improved living conditions reducing mortality before vaccinationsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It is a well-known fact that it was improved living conditions that dramatically reduced mortality rates from common infectious diseases—and that this happened before most vaccinations were introduced." Anthony R. Mawson
Quote by Nina Proll about discrimination and excluding healthy people from social lifeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"That healthy people, who would even be willing to 'prove' this, are to be excluded from social life in the future lacks not only any medical but also legal basis. This is discrimination at the highest level. If we accept this, we will indeed be surprised at what all is possible!" Nina Proll
Inspirational chiropractic quote by B. J. Palmer about restoring the natural flow of nerve impulseCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"So what Chiropractic does, is that it simply “takes the handcuffs off Nature”, as it were. By finding the particular vertebra that had shifted and restoring it to its natural position, the adjustment thus releases the natural flow of nerve impulse. When the maze of nerves, or Nature’s communication system, supplies the body with the energy it needs for well being, you have health." B. J. Palmer
Noam Chomsky quote image about worker insecurity and corporate powerCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health." Noam Chomsky
Chris Hedges quote about politics and the corporate stateCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The charade of politics is to make voters think that the personal narrative of the candidate affects the operation of the corporate state. It doesn't really matter on the fundamental issues whether the President is Republican or Democratic." Chris Hedges
Political labels and control quote image by Robert A. HeinleinCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire." Robert A. Heinlein
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
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
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
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
Quote by Avro Manhattan about the financial power of the Catholic Church and the VaticanCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The Catholic church, once all her assets have been put together, is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. The Vatican, independently of each successive pope, has been increasingly orientated towards the U.S. The Wall Street Journal said that the Vatican’s financial deals in the U.S. alone were so big that very often it sold or bought gold in lots of a million or more dollars at one time." Avro Manhattan
Quote about the Jesuit influence on Hitler by Edmond ParisCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The Fuhrer had come to power, thanks to the votes of the Catholic Zentrum [Center Party overseen by Jesuit Ludwig Kaas], only five years before [1933], but most of the objectives cynically revealed in Mein Kampf were already realized; this book . . . was written by the Jesuit [controlled] Father [Bernhardt] Stempfle and signed by Hitler. For . . . it was the Society of Jesus which perfected the famous Pan-German programme as laid out in this book, and the Fuhrer endorsed it." Edmond Paris
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 about gods, fear, and blindness by Paul-Henri Thiry d’HolbachCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned or disfigured them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them, and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of man serve its own interests." Paul-Henri Thiry d’Holbach