Daniel Dennett Quotes: The Truth About Illusions and Our Lives
“There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.”
Daniel Dennett
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Thomas Aquinas Quotes on Anger, Justice and Morality – Profound Wisdom
0 Comments/in Thomas von Aquin“He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.”
Thomas von Aquin
Bill Hicks Quotes: The Harsh Truth About Society and Drugs
0 Comments/in Bill Hicks“If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.”
Bill Hicks
Friedrich Nietzsche Quote: Surviving the System – Be the Wheel or Get Crushed!
0 Comments/in Friedrich Nietzsche“We live in a system in which one must either be a wheel or get crushed by the wheels.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Edward Osborne Wilson Quotes: The Wisdom of Synthesis in the Information Flood
0 Comments/in Edward Osborne Wilson“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”
Edward Osborne Wilson
William Egan Colby Reveals: How the CIA Controls Major Media
0 Comments/in William Egan Colby“The CIA controls everyone of significance in the major media’, where it spent about 30% of its budget on covered press personnel and programs”
William Egan Colby
Ayn Rand Quotes: The Truth About Individual Rights and Minorities!
0 Comments/in Ayn Rand“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
Ayn Rand
Erich Fromm Quotes – How to See Through Propaganda and Protect Your Mind!
0 Comments/in Erich Fromm“The holders of authority and those who take advantage of it must convince people of this fiction and put to sleep their realistic, that is to say, critical, faculty of thought. Every thinking person knows the methods of propaganda, methods by which critical judgment is destroyed and the mind is lulled until it submits to clichés that stultify people because they make them dependent, depriving them of the ability to trust their eyes and their judgment. This function, in which they believe, blinds them to reality.”
Erich Fromm
Karl Jaspers Reveals the Hidden Power of Party Oligarchy – A Critical View on German Federal Elections
0 Comments/in Karl Jaspers“Every four years it elects the Bundestag. The lists or persons submitted to it by the parties are already elected beforehand by the parties. The process of this hidden preliminary election, which is the actual election, is convoluted; the names for the constituency lists and the state lists are not drawn up in the same way. But it is always the party committees, never the people, who would be involved in this decisive beginning. One must be a party member in order to participate somewhere in this election and to be able to be set up. Even those who are party members, as such, have little effect in the nominations. The decisive factor is the party hierarchy and bureaucracy.[…] Even the elections are not really elections, but acclamations to the party oligarchy. [….] The parties, which should by no means be the state, make themselves, withdrawn from the life of the people, the state [….] The governance of the state is in the hands of the party oligarchy [….] Their position, not limited by any tension to other power, seduces [….] the parties to want to occupy the seats by their own people. This is the reward for party work, the spoils of victory after the electoral battle [….]”
Karl Jaspers