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Erich Fromm quote on thinking, happiness, and societyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Well now, I believe we are much less stupid than it seems. We are trained not to think. Formulas are drilled into us, which we parrot. But I believe that if the desire for true happiness, for true knowledge were to fully awaken among people in society – what the Enlightenment called with Kant's words: Sapere aude! Dare to know! – and not to consume canned wisdom that someone else has cooked and served, and then even experienced oneself as if I had thought such a thing... I believe that tremendous change could be achieved. People are not that stupid at all. But it is dangerous not to be stupid. Because if you are not stupid, you contradict, criticize, express unpopular opinions. And for safety reasons, it is better to appear stupid." Erich Fromm
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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
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Erich Fromm quote on thinking, happiness, and societyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Well now, I believe we are much less stupid than it seems. We are trained not to think. Formulas are drilled into us, which we parrot. But I believe that if the desire for true happiness, for true knowledge were to fully awaken among people in society – what the Enlightenment called with Kant's words: Sapere aude! Dare to know! – and not to consume canned wisdom that someone else has cooked and served, and then even experienced oneself as if I had thought such a thing... I believe that tremendous change could be achieved. People are not that stupid at all. But it is dangerous not to be stupid. Because if you are not stupid, you contradict, criticize, express unpopular opinions. And for safety reasons, it is better to appear stupid." Erich Fromm
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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
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Begin with the End in Mind quote by Stephen R. CoveyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you're going so that you better understand where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction." Stephen R. Covey
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Inspirational Novak Djokovic quote image about believing that nothing is impossibleCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In my case, I can sincerely say that nothing is impossible... When I was saying I want to be No. 1 of the world, and I was seven or eight years old, most of the people were laughing at me because it seems like I have one percent of chances to do that, and I've done it." Novak Djokovic
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Inspirational quote image about finding fulfillment within by Erich FrommCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself." Erich Fromm
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Oswald Spengler quote about cultural situation, civilization, and the fate of a generationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full Civilization, instead of on the golden summit of a ripe Culture, in a Phidias or a Mozart time. Everything depends on our seeing our own position, our destiny, clearly, on our realizing that though we may lie to ourselves about it, we cannot evade it. He who does not acknowledge this in his heart, ceases to be counted among the men of his generation, and remains either a simpleton, a charlatan, or a pedant." Oswald Spengler
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John Lennon quote about happiness as the key to lifeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life." John Lennon
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Paul Feyerabend quote about the separation of science and non-scienceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental to the advancement of knowledge. If we want to understand nature, if we want to master our physical surroundings, then we must use all ideas, all methods, and not just a small selection of them." Paul Feyerabend
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Quote image featuring Rupert Sheldrake on science and belief systemsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith." Rupert Sheldrake
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Thomas Kuhn quote about normal science and the suppression of new ideasCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments." Thomas Kuhn
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Charles Wright Mills quote about the power elite and national decisionsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them." Charles Wright Mills
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Gore Vidal quote about American politics, presidents, and the illusion of democracyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It doesn't actually make any difference whether the President is Republican or Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that it has been able to make the people think that they have had something to do with the electing of presidents for 200 years when they've had absolutely nothing to say about the candidates or the policies or the way the country is run." Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal quote about the meaning of liberal in political contextCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon." Gore Vidal
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David Graeber quote about anarchism and solving practical problemsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Anarchism is surprisingly effective in solving actual problems largely because anarchists have thought a lot about solving actual problems on a micro level in ways that other political ideologies don't really feel they have to until after they seize state power." David Graeber
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David Graeber quote about the origin of democracy in ancient AthensCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens - like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It's never entirely clear what this is supposed to mean. Are we supposed to believe that before the Athenians, it never really occurred to anyone, anywhere, to gather all the members of their community in order to make joint decisions in a way that gave everyone equal say?" David Graeber
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Quote about banks and money creation by G Edward GriffinCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"When banks place credits into your account, they are merely pretending to lend you money. In reality, they have nothing to lend. Even the money that non-indebted depositors have placed with them was originally created out of nothing in response to someone else's loan. So what entitles the banks to collect rent on nothing? It is immaterial that men everywhere are forced by law to accept these nothing certificates in exchange for real goods and services. We are talking here not about what is legal, but what is moral." G. Edward Griffin
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Neil Postman quote about information as a commodityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance one's status. It comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it." Neil Postman
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Quote image featuring Eduard von Hartmann on war, armies, and peaceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The responsibility for a war becomes all the harder to bear the larger the armies, the costs of war, and the economic losses suffered by both belligerents become. Therefore, strong standing armies are, in this respect as well, the best guarantee of peace, and high military budgets an insurance premium against war." Eduard von Hartmann
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Petr Skrabanek quote about consumption, waste, and the economyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known as 'consumption', that is, a wasting disease. Then economists came up with a bizarre theory, which has become widely accepted, according to which the basis of a sound economy is a continual increase in the consumption (that is, waste) of goods" Petr Skrabanek
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