Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quote: Seeing Essential Things with the Heart
“The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Author Archive for: Jan
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Quote by Ludwig von Mises on Market Economy and Government Control
“There is no use in deceiving ourselves. American public opinion rejects the market economy, the capitalistic free enterprise system that provided the nation with the highest standard of living ever attained. Full government control of all activities of the individual is virtually the goal of both national parties.”
Ludwig von Mises
Quote by Ludwig von Mises on Government and Coercion
“Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.”
Ludwig von Mises
Jean-Luc Godard Quote: Cannes as a Propaganda Tool – Revelations on Staging & War
“Zelensky’s intervention at the Cannes festival goes without saying if you look at it from the angle of what is called “staging”: a bad actor, a professional comedian, under the eye of other professionals in their own professions. I believe I must have said something along these lines a long time ago. It therefore took the staging of yet another world war and the threat of another catastrophe for us to know that Cannes is a propaganda tool like any other. They propagate Western aesthetics whilst thinking it is not a big deal, but it is just that. The truth of the images is only advancing slowly. Now imagine that the war itself is this aesthetic deployed during a world festival, whose stakeholders are the states in conflict, or rather “interests”, broadcasting representations of which we are all spectators for… you, like me. We often say “conflict of interest”, which is a tautology. There is no conflict, big or small, unless there is interest. Brutus, Nero, Biden, or Putin, Constantinople, Iraq or Ukraine, not much has changed, apart from the mass murder.”
Jean-Luc Godard
Plato Quotes: Why Truth Often Breeds Hate – Insights from the Philosopher
“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.”
Plato
Plato Quotes: How Storytelling Rules Society – Profound Insights
“He who tells the stories rules the society.”
Platon
“Futile Follies” – Quote by Heinrich Böll
“It is bitter enough to commit follies, but even more bitter are futile follies.”
Heinrich Böll
“The only thing young people need to be protected from” – Heinrich Böll
“The only thing young people need to be protected from is adults.”
Heinrich Böll
“To Be an Adult Means” – Quote by Heinrich Böll
“To be an adult means to forget how inconsolable we often were as children.”
Heinrich Böll
“Official Government Paper” – Quote by Heinrich Böll
“By now, the Bild newspaper is almost the official government paper.”
Heinrich Böll