“The most dangerous Weapons of Mass Destruction are the Mass Media. For they destroy the people’s spirit, creativity and courage, replacing them by fear, mistrust, guilt and self-doubt.”
M.A.Verick
“The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The world cannot be improved if everyone blindly follows the majority. It needs people who have the courage to question the seemingly irrefutable, who dare to question authority and use their own minds.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Under no circumstances do I want to be merely a ′common′ man. I have the right to be exceptional – if I can. I want opportunities, not security. I do not want to be a citizen who is humiliated and dulled by government support. I want to encounter risk, have desires and fulfill them, suffer disaster and enjoy success. I refuse to sell my own determination for a pittance. I would prefer to face life’s difficulties rather than lead a secure existence. I prefer the exciting tension of my own success to the dull calm of Utopia. I want neither to sacrifice my freedom for benefits nor my human dignity for charity. I have learned to think and act for myself, to look the world squarely in the face and to recognize that this is my achievement. This is what is meant when we say: I am a free man!”
Albert Schweitzer
“What you find in people’s minds today is often not reality at all, but a manufactured reality constructed by the media”
Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann
“Public opinion is influenced by the media and the media are in the hands of those who rule and those who rule favor those who say what is convenient for them and erase everything that does not suit them. So public opinion is, above all, media opinion.”
José Luis Sampedro Sáez
“Don’t speak negatively about yourself, even as a joke. Your body doesn’t know the difference. Words are energy and they cast spells, that’s why it’s called spelling. Change the way you speak about yourself, and you can change your life.”
Bruce Lee
“It no longer matters whether one is exposed to true information.
A person who is demoralized is unable to evaluate true information.
The facts mean nothing to him.
Even if I overwhelm him with information, with authentic evidence, with documents, with pictures.
Even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him a concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it until he gets a kick in his fat ass.
When the military boot crushes his balls, then he will understand, but not before.
That is the tragic aspect of the situation of demoralization.”
Yuri Bezmenow
“Truth was never the highest priority of human society. It was the highest priority of some individuals, but never of society as a whole — because society as a whole does not function on the basis of truth. If you take two of the most powerful institutions of humankind — science and the scientific community, and religion and churches — neither of them has truth as their chief value. For individuals, yes. But as institutions, no. The chief value of science is power. The chief value of religion is order — organization. Religion is all about maintaining order in society, and science is mainly about gaining power.”
Yuval Noah Harari