Niklas Luhmann Quote: Why Media Create Reality & Counter-Publicity Matters
“Sure, the media don’t depict reality, they create it! And that’s why we need counter-publicity!”
Niklas Luhmann
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Henry Louis Mencken Quote: The Hidden Power Behind Saviors of Humanity
0 Comments/in Henry Louis Mencken“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.”
Henry Louis Mencken
Rob Schneider Quote Reveals Why Talking to Neighbors Beats the News
0 Comments/in Rob Schneider“If you turn off the news and talk to your neighbors, you’ll find that our country is far more harmonious than you’re being told”
Rob Schneider
Fritz Bauer Quotes: The Courageous Lesson Against State Injustice You Need to Know!
0 Comments/in Fritz Bauer“The certainly stirring but decisive lesson of our trials, however, demands a readiness to say an unequivocal no to state injustice. The trials demand that people renounce private and family advantages and are also prepared to make personal sacrifices if they are required to do or tolerate evil, even if it is the state that makes itself the advocate of evil.”
Fritz Bauer
Ignatius of Loyola Quotes: Revealing Power, Control, and Societal Influence!
0 Comments/in Ignatius von Loyola“All princes and other persons of rank and name must be compelled by all means to listen to us and feel secure in doing so. By this approach, they all become our creatures, and no one will dare to offer the slightest resistance to our society… Ultimately, our society must ensure that every prince is either gracious to us or otherwise in our power, so that everyone who does not love us at least fears us.”
Ignatius von Loyola
Fritz Bauer Quotes: Why Obedience Is Not a Virtue – The Importance of Civil Courage
0 Comments/in Fritz Bauer“Unfortunately, it is a typical German trait to think that obedience par excellence is a virtue. We need the civil courage to say ‘no’.”
Fritz Bauer
George Orwell on Real Power – The Shocking Truth About Control and Privileges
0 Comments/in George Orwell“Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.”
George Orwell
Petr Skrabanek Quote: Health, Politics & the Danger of Healthism
0 Comments/in Petr Skrabanek“The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state ideology, healthism for short, it becomes a symptom of political sickness.”
Petr Skrabanek