Alexander von Humboldt on Freedom and Diversity: How State Interference Destroys Society
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"The true purpose of man, not that which is dictated by changing inclinations, but that which is dictated by eternal and unchanging reason, is the highest and most proportionate development of his powers into a whole. Freedom is the first and indispensable condition for this development. (...) It is precisely the diversity that arises from the union of many that is the highest good that society offers, and this diversity is certainly always lost to the extent that the state interferes. It is no longer actually the members of a nation who live together in community, but individual subjects who enter into a relationship with the state, i.e., with the spirit that prevails in its government, and indeed into a relationship in which the superior power of the state already inhibits the free play of forces. Uniform causes have uniform effects. The more the state intervenes, the more similar not only everything that acts becomes, but also everything that is acted upon. (...) But anyone who reasons in this way for others is, not without reason, suspected of misunderstanding humanity and wanting to turn people into machines."
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt Quotes: Courage and Restraint in Science – Inspiring Wisdom
"I have known, too, for a long time, that we have no arguments for the Copernican system, but I shall never dare to be the first to attack it. Don’t msh into the wasp’s nest.
You will but bring upon yourself the scorn of the thoughtless multitude. If once a famous astronomer arises against the present conception, I will communicate, too, my observations; but to come forth as the first against opinions which the world has become fond of – I don’t feel the courage"
Alexander von Humboldt
Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes: Why Common Sense Beats Education Every Time
"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."
Robert G. Ingersoll
Bertrand Russell Quote: 2 Reasons Why You Truly Read a Book!
"There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
Bertrand Russell
Peter Strohschneider Quotes: How Research Shapes Discoveries!
"The search for a sea route to India must be organized in such a way that it does not at least prevent the discovery of America."
Peter Strohschneider
Caitlin Johnstone on Power, Narratives, and the Meaning of Labels – Revealed!
"This is why you have labels for anyone expressing skepticism of establishment narratives like “conspiracy theorist”, “useful idiot”, “Russian asset” or “Assadist”; the powerful people who understand that whoever controls the narrative controls the world need labels to separate the faithful from the heathens. It means the same thing as “heretic”."
Caitlin Johnstone
Henry Louis Mencken Quotes: Sharp Critique of Education and Society
"The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens."
Henry Louis Mencken
Unknown Author on the Challenge of Education – Why Critical Thinking is Essential
"The problem is not people being educated. The problem is that they are educated just enough to believe what they've been taught, but not educated enough to question what they've been taught."
Unbekannter Autor
Prof. Hans Hermann Hoppe on Democracy’s Dark Side – Freedom or Mob Rule?
"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
Malcolm Muggeridge on Evolution: The Surprising Take on a Controversial Theory!
"I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious a hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has."
Malcolm Muggeridge
Dr. Alexander Zinn on Enemies of Science and the Real COVID Crisis – Open Debate over Exclusion!
"'Enemies of science' are not the people who question numbers, studies, and measures, but those who want to suppress open debate about them. Blaming and excluding others may give us psychological relief, but it won’t solve the COVID crisis—which by now is more of a societal crisis than a purely health-related one."
Dr. Alexander Zinn
Thomas Winship Quotes: Unveil the Illusion of Modern Astronomy!
"To fanciful minds and theoretical speculators, the so-called "science" of modern astronomy furnishes a field, unsurpassed in any science for the unrestrained license of the imagination, and the building up of a complicated conjuration of absurdities such as to overawe the simpleton and make him gape with wonder"
Thomas Winship
Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. – Revealed: Why Governments Want to Educate Our Children!
"It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government's propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They'll fasten the chains to their own ankles."
Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
Upton Sinclair Quote: Why Your Salary Influences Your Understanding!
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
Upton Sinclair
John Taylor Gatto Quotes: Revealing the Hidden Lessons of School!
"The well-known school critic and teacher John Taylor Gatto identifies seven lessons as the real teachings of school:
Confusing the student
Awakening class consciousness
Teaching indifference
Creating intellectual and emotional dependence
Weakening self-confidence
and Accustoming students to constant supervision.
"School condemns most people to being lowly building blocks in a pyramidal social model. In collaboration with television, schooling robs children of the time they need to develop a unique personality, thereby preventing them from growing up. School has replaced the ‘family curriculum’ with the components of privacy, independence, and social life. In its place has come the factory school, a prison for children's souls that fragments social relationships into networks and cannot be survived without damage."
"It replaces the intellectual growth of children with the violent creation of subjects.
It kills the curiosity of its subjects, places them in a dense fog of confusion from which many will never be able to free themselves in their entire lives, it blocks their path to individual freedom and denies them the fulfillment that comes with a free spirit.""
John Taylor Gatto