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Bertrand Russell Quote: Why Expert Consensus Should Warn You!

“When all experts agree, you need to watch out.”

Bertrand Russell

Wolfgang Borchert Quote: The Generation Without Ties and Depth – A Profound Truth

“We are the generation without ties and without depth. Our depth is the abyss. We are the generation without happiness, without home and without farewell. Our sun is narrow, our love is cruel and our youth is without youth. And we are the generation without boundaries, without restraint and protection – cast out of the playpen of childhood into a world prepared for us by those who despise us for it.”

Wolfgang Borchert

Martha Gellhorn Quote: Why Politics Matters to Everyone and You Can’t Look Away!

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“People often say, with pride, ‘I’m not interested in politics.’ They might as well say, ‘I’m not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.’ … If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.”

Martha Gellhorn

Max Nordau | The citizen is in chains

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“The form in which all European states are governed today allows the services demanded of citizens to be squandered on foolish, frivolous and criminal undertakings. The whim of individuals, the self-interest of vanishingly small minorities, all too often determines the goal towards which the efforts of the whole are directed. Thus the individual citizen works and bleeds so that wars may be waged which destroy his life or his prosperity, so that fortresses, palaces, railroads, harbors or canals may be built from which neither he nor nine-tenths of the nation will ever derive the slightest benefit, so that new offices may be created, which will make the state machine still more cumbersome, the friction of its wheels still harder, in which he will lose still more of his time, still more of his freedom, so that officials may be highly paid who have no other purpose than to lead an ornamental existence at his expense and to make his existence more difficult; In a word, he works and bleeds in order to make his yoke heavier and his chains tighter and to create the possibility of obtaining even more work and even more blood from him….”

Max Nordau

Bernard Edouard Harcourt Quote: The Eternal Recurrence of Tyranny and Resistance

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“The eternal recurrence of new forms of unbearable servitude, and with them, new forms of resistance, demonstrates that human history is not a progressive march toward absolute knowledge, the demise of the state, or the end of history, but rather a constant struggle for our own subjugation, a battle that must be fought anew to establish our subjectivity, ourselves as subjects. Once we grasp the recurring nature of this struggle, only then will we recognize the task that confronts us today and in the future: to resist the ever-pressing forms of tyrannical power, that brutal desire for subjugation, and the ongoing, ever-renewed attempts to rule through fear, terror, and absolute domination.”

Bernard Edouard Harcourt

Nick Cohen Quote: Why Believers Are More Powerful Than Liars – A Stirring Warning

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“Compulsive liars shouldn’t frighten you. They can harm no one, if no one listens to them. Compulsive believers, on the other hand: they should terrify you. Believers are the liars’ enablers. Their votes give the demagogue his power. Their trust turns the charlatan into the president. Their credulity ensures that the propaganda of half-calculating and half-mad fanatics has the power to change the world.”

Nick Cohen

Roland Baader Quote: Revealing the Grim Future of Socialism and Totalitarianism!

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“We have the entire political elite against us. […] The development will be a bad one. […] I see nothing good, absolutely nothing good; I see no approach anywhere. The problems have been treated with the same methods from which the problems arose in the first place. […]
We will get more and more socialism, new kinds of socialism, new kinds of fascism. Definitely more totalitarianism, less freedom, and overall a radicalization. We will also experience uprisings, we will have unrest, and explosive growths of crime.”

Roland Baader