“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
Frank Zappa
“Governments should not have this capacity. But governments will use whatever technology is available to them to combat their primary enemy – which is their own population”
Noam Chomsky
“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”
Jonathan Swift
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
Herbert George Wells
“Once people see images of the Earth from space, life on Earth will never be the same again.”
Fred Hoyle
“Whoever should once play with the state of emergency to limit freedom will find my friends and me on the barricades in defense of democracy, and this is meant quite literally.”
Willy Brandt
“Sadly, sadly, we live in a state of fear. Everyday we hear of war on the news, on the radio and television and the newspapers, always of war. We hear of nations hurting each other, of neighbours hurting each other, of families hurting each other and the children killing each other. We must learn to live and love each other before its too late. We have to stop! We have to stop the prejudice, we have to stop the hating, we have to stop living in fear of our own neighbours. I would like all of you now to take the hand of the person to the left and to the right. Go ahead! Right now! I mean it! Dont be shy! Do it! It starts now! To the person next to you. To the left and the right. I mean it. Right now! Go ahead! Dont be shy. Do it! Do it! Now, tell the person … tell the person next to you that you care for them. Tell them that you care for them. Tell them that you love them. Tell them that you love them. This is what makes the difference. Together … together we can make a change of the world. Together we can help to stop racism. Together we can help to stop prejudice. We can help the world live without fear. Its our only hope, without hope we are lost.”
Michael Jackson
“The word ‘democracy’ is a heavy intoxicant. It prevents learning, clouds the mind, confuses thinking, creates delusions – and eventually makes you sleepy and apathetic. Today’s democracy junkies would murder Socrates again.”
Roland Baader
“One need only translate the terms “conspiracy theorists” as “heretics” to know the tradition in which these terms stand and those who use them. Ultimately, it is about the accusation of apostasy from the ruling faith, which is determined by the ruling authorities and majorities. (Faith in this respect can also be translated as ruling doctrine, ideology, etc.). Thus, contrary to the subjective view of many of its users, the terms are themselves expressions of clerical and authoritarian thought structures based on subjugation as a basic psychological pattern. It is denunciatory, inquisitorial. It is directed against classical skepticism.
Thus, the main purpose of these terms can only be to discredit “serious conjectures”, hypotheses and facts, and thereby prevent real causal research.
The term is linguistically barbaric and show an amazingly powerful psychological effect in suppressing independent thought. Where thought is undesirable, these clubs are used by default: You don’t really want to…think about it. Independent thought is the enemy of government. Psychological operations, such as 9/11 or, say, the NASA “moon landing,” are weapons of mass destruction whose target is independent thought.”
Daniel Neun