Quotes of the Week

Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:

"Western civilization has been moving downhill since 1914, and that downtrend is going hyperbolic at this point. I don’t know where it’s going to end except to say it’s going to end badly. It’s not going to magically get better because the foundations of our culture have rotted. After this hysteria dies down, the US, and for that matter the world, but particularly the US, will have changed permanently, much the way it did after 9/11. Much for the worse.
This is much more serious than 9/11 in its social and economic implications. And its political implications, which we will see before the year is out."
Doug Casey

"COVIDiots don’t operate from a basis in logic and knowledge. They’re running purely on emotion as do their Marxist brothers, so far as I can tell: engaged in a drama of good (them and rulers vanquishing a killer) and evil (us and that killer), they cling ferociously to their myths. And why not? Thrills and adventure abound: their meaningless, atheistic lives suddenly glow with purpose and a Cause beyond acquiring the latest iPhone or new Nikes. They love their masks as symbols of their crusade and wear them as proudly as any Christian does a crucifix."
Becky Akers

"As you go down the sickening daily roll call in the media of the hundreds of major Fortune 500 firms which have caved in and given gazillions to these Marxist terrorist thugs of Black Lives Matter  — there is no other way to regard them but as craven, willfully ignorant, corporatist enablers of pure evil, sedition, and national suicide. Reminds me of the American corporations with blood on their hands who built the military-industrial complexes in the 1930s in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, making possible World War II and the Holocaust."
Charles Burris

"A large cult is composed of many layers of foot soldiers, all of whom believe. But when you get to the top, you see a few people who know the truth. They lie about the discovery of a new virus, and they spread that lie to further their own agenda—in this case, destruction of nations and the ushering in of a fascist technocracy for the planet, a Brave New World.
But, as I say, the main body of the cult, the millions of mask wearers and the distancing people and the doctors and the mayors and the governors and the routine public health officials and so on—they go on faith. Their god is Fauci, and television, and news.
The scientists who are in the cult believe in their own special procedure of discovering a new virus. They 'sequence its genetic structure.' This is their scripture and bible. But the problem is, what kind of sample are they starting with? They say it is a new virus, but this, too, is faith. It could be part of an irrelevant virus, it could be a whole but decaying irrelevant virus, it could be a random piece of genetic material, or cellular debris, or exosomes; whatever. And if this sample is used as the basis of analysis at many labs, they will all come up with the same irrelevant result. To which they will bow down."
Jon Rappoport

"The corona scare has absolutely nothing to do with health and safety and everything to do with money, politics and power. And almost everybody wants in on the action. And almost no one gives a tinker’s dam about Liberty.
There is one positive in all of this: It has produced a great winnowing process. More than anything in my lifetime, this is separating the lifeless chaff of statist slaves from the genuine wheat of Liberty-loving patriots.
Now, we can all clearly see that the great divide is NOT race or political parties or religious denominations or Christians v. secularists or liberals v. conservatives; it is freedomists v. statists.
It’s good to finally get a clear picture of who is standing where."
Chuck Baldwin

"Of course, by knowledge or common sense observation, most Americans already know that masking everyone is superstition. But unlike privately carrying a lucky charm, mandating facial coverings requires the consent of the governed.
Many cultures mandate clothing that appears totally irrational to outsiders. Never have those cultures pretended that there is a scientific basis for their clothing requirement. Their leaders rule, and their citizens accept, that their choice of clothing is due to religious or cultural preference.
Not wearing a mask is not mere 'personal choice' like deciding between a head covering or a t-shirt. It is a flashpoint for being a free human being who has consented to be governed but has not consented to be ruled. We do not consent to a masked America, because that is a fundamental change in American society, culture, norms, and rights.
People who are apathetic toward their own liberty cannot eliminate Constitutional rights for those who are not. This is not the first (or last) time that people who believe in superstition are screaming the loudest. The Constitution exists precisely to protect all people during times of mass hysteria.
The mask has become the most visible symbol of #socialconditioning to Americans determined to preserve individual freedom. Thus far most Americans have continued to give their consent to be governed. But you are trying our patience."
Simone Gold, MD

"The Beast calls the shots on boom or bust of our economies, on who should be shackled by debt, when and where a pandemic should break out, and on the conditions of surviving the pandemic, for example, social confinement. And to top it all off – the instruments the Beast uses, very cleverly, are a tiny-tiny invisible enemy, called a virus, and a huge but also invisible monster, called FEAR. That keeps us off the street, off reunions with our friends, and off our social entertainment, theatre, sports, or a picnic in the park."
Peter Koenig

"The GREAT RESET would subvert elections or democratic forms of government.  Everybody must participate.  They won’t be selling this revolution.  They will be jamming it down everyone’s throats.  Forget elections.  Basically, the WEF [World Economic Forum]believes the masses don’t know what is best for themselves and pandemics have to be contrived, life must be threatened, income destroyed, and then social change will be coerced."
Bill Sardi

"Face it folks, if you have to wear a mask you are not free. Freedom is a property of individuals with faces, not people hiding out behind mask
You close down the world economy and the bottom fifth of the earners living on the margin fall into jeopardy for their lives.
According to polls, the American people don’t grasp this fact. They take wealth for granted and are willing to give up their freedom in response to the liturgies of a new religion. Replacing theocracy is therapocracy, under chief priest Anthony Fauci.
People who don’t believe in God worship their bodies and believe in the magic of healthcare Caesarism. In contrast to some other religions, under therapocracy both men and women have to cover their faces."
George Gilder

"At a certain point in life, the consequences of our actions become more clear. Do we stop living to stay alive, or do we opt to fully engage in normal living knowing death is inevitable? We have been divided in two with fear and clever-looking masks. I choose to breathe in life and to live without fear. I cannot and will not cede my life to arbitrary 'mandates' and random testing from government hacks who seem to take pleasure in sucking the joys of living out of life. I’ll take my chances to feel normal again."
Susan B Watson

"As incredible as it might seem in this time of the lie of the existence of a ‘deadly pandemic,’ this current life of servitude, of emptiness and despair, of the purposeful elimination of pleasure and joy, of divisiveness, and of the constant fear of fellow human contact, brings about a feeling among conscientious men that life is not worth living and death is salvation. This is a human tragedy. Why would any accept this misery when the cure for tyranny is so simple to achieve due to the obvious fact that there are so many millions of us and only a few tyrants?"
Gary D. Barnett

"The question we must face is that in the next election, ANY politician who has voted for a lockdown should be REMOVED from office. Even Anthony Fauci should be fired if not tarred & feathered and his name should be remembered by historians as an irresponsible official who had no regard for the people he pretends to be so concerned about. The damage this one man has caused to the entire economy is far beyond any invading army. That is why CNN, Washington Post, and the New York Times celebrate him for he has inflicted more damage on the average person than anyone in history after Marx. Why this media is so against the country and deliberately trying to harm the average person simply for political objectives is disgusting."
Martin Armstrong

"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
H.L. Mencken

"I know the Deep State (The Party) has no intention of relinquishing power and has no interest in our well-being or what is best for future generations. They are consumed by greed and an unquenchable thirst for power. They won’t blink in sentencing millions to a death sentence. It will require guile, guts and guns to defeat this entrenched vicious enemy. Voting for a different faction of the Party will not change our path or our fate. Only determined resistance using whatever means necessary and a willingness to sacrifice our lives for the sake of our children and grandchildren, along with a good bit of luck, can give us a chance to defeat The Party.
Our choice is to continue to accept beatings from the Captain and consent to their vision of the future – a boot stomping on our faces forever, or a 2nd Civil War. I didn’t say the choices were good. But that’s the unpleasant truth."
Jim Quinn

"Passion in life is the essence of our existence, and if lost, we will have destroyed all that is important in this world. We will have allowed the few to end the idea of humanity as it has existed, in order to bring about a lifeless, empty, and fully controlled society with no feeling, empathy, love, or compassion evident. That is not a world of worth for the living. It is only a sterile environment meant to bring about a future of Transhumanism, a belief that humans can evolve due to science and technology, and form a race with few physical and mental limitations. All beauty in life would become extinct, and a country of non-thinking, non-emotional beings would exist only in order to function as they are programmed to do.
The more our passion disappears, the less human we become!"
Gary D. Barnett

"I for one am not going to live my life walking on eggshells around a clique of narcissistic sociopaths. Cancel culture is mob rule, and mob rule is at its core the true evil here; far more evil than any mere words spoken by any 'white supremacist' on any forum or video ever."
Brandon Smith

"There are reasons why power distorts and free decisions do not, why the one is false and the other is true. The fundamental reason is that power is concentrated in a few heads, and these heads do not know what’s going on in the heads of millions of others. They cannot know. What these few heads with huge powers then do is to decide based upon their own limited knowledge and by bringing to bear their own values. The powerful heads are bound to cause outcomes that are distorted as compared with what would have prevailed had their powers gone un-exercised."
Michael Rozeff

"Though a society can resist epidemics of physical disease, it is defenseless against diseases of the mind. Against 'psychic epidemics' our laws and medicines and great factories and fortunes are virtually helpless."
Carl Jung

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
William Pitt the Younger

"People fail to understand that government is basically and intrinsically different from any other institution in society. Government isn’t based upon choice and production. It's based upon coercion. It comes out of the barrel of a gun, as Mao said. And the prime directive of every entity – I don't care if we're talking about an amoeba, an individual, a corporation, or a state – is to survive and grow.
Government is uniquely well-positioned to survive because it's the only body that can legally point a gun at anybody's head. It grows like a parasite. There’s always a danger a parasite will kill its host."
Doug Casey

"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California." 
Edward Abbey

"I am 100 percent against illegal immigration. The government is cast with a job and part of that is to prevent an invasion, it doesn’t specify armed or unarmed, but if 20 million people are in this country illegally, how can you look at me with a straight face and say we haven’t been invaded?
Legal immigration is fine, as long as whatever caused you to flee, leave that shit where you came from. Learn the language, our practices, our traditions – do not try to advocate for other religious, ideological or political beliefs enforced in whatever country you came from.
I’m not saying you have to be Christian, in America you are free to practice any religion you like. But if anyone doesn’t want to assimilate or come here legally, I’d put them in a catapult and fling them into the Gulf of Mexico."
Chris Hill, Commanding officer for the 111% Security Force’s Georgia branch

"The current line is that Confederate memorials 'pay tribute to white supremacy and slavery,' as the most ignorant Barbara Lee (D, CA) put it.  So, according to a person regarded by people in California of sufficient intelligence and integrity to represent them in Washington, a Southerner who resists the invasion of his country is a white supremacist."
Paul Craig Roberts

"Free Americans, and free Texans, must not allow a fractious, divided and politically motivated body of values lightweights to dictate day-to-day living."
Patrick Payton, Mayor of Midland, TX

"What used to be known as the 24-hour news cycle—yesterday’s top news buried by today’s big headline overwhelmed by tomorrow’s attention-grabbing exposé—has been replaced by the 24-day and 24-week ongoing constantly covered, reported, repeated, reconsidered, opinionized, critiqued, studied, detailed, deliberated, debated and endlessly recycled news cycle."
Gary Reed

"If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting."
Curtis LeMay

"Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
George Orwell

"I guess that Americans who overdose on fentanyl aren’t responsible for being drug addicts. It is all China’s fault. Americans are just stupid. Hey, perhaps some Chinese came over here and injected them with fentanyl. And Mr. Conservative, which U.S. ports are the Chinese using to export fentanyl into the country? What products are they hiding it in? And how do you know these things?"
Laurence Vance

"Joe Biden keeps saying he wants to 'unify the country.'
Sure he does.
His vision for 'unifying' the country calls to mind the neoconservatives' stance on promoting democracy abroad: it's democracy if our guys win.
Likewise, it's 'unifying the country' if we all unite around the Establishment.
Not to mention: how exactly does Biden or anyone else propose to 'unify the country'?
How do you 'unify' (1) people who, like Ludwig von Mises, point out that the idea of liberty is, in its origins, a Western one, with (2) people who consider the West a great oppressor?
How do you 'unify' people who think society ought to be able to run its affairs without the patronizing intervention of Ivy League intellectuals, and people who believe in the top-down management of society?
How do you 'unify' people who want to suppress dissident voices with people who are dissident voices?
At this point, calls for 'unity' are just low-IQ boilerplate.
And incidentally, which side is trying to get people fired and their lives destroyed for wrongthink? Which side condemns half the country as backward rubes? Seems like it would take some real nerve for the very same people to call for unity.
You first, pal.
And the fact is: they have zero desire to 'unify' us."
Tom Woods

"Personally, I have no regard for most monuments and find it odd that so many Confederate leaders have been commemorated in bronze. 
But I care deeply when people try to erase the past… or to change vocabulary… or destroy intellectual dissent… simply because someone who has been dead for hundreds of years did not live up to modern values."
Simon Black

"Appealing to the text of the Constitution to claim illegitimacy for the latest government power grab is pointless and irrelevant to the task of actually limiting the power of the state. The de facto status of the Constitution is that it positively authorizes every new 'despotic incursion' the federal government wishes to initiate.
In turn, everything the federal government wishes to do is ultimately constitutional. So long as the public tolerates it.
And it's this final piece of information that is the key to the puzzle. So long as the public tolerates it, it will be done. Words on parchment are useless in opposing this. The beliefs of the people who wrote the Bill of Rights—that is, a group of laissez-faire liberals from the late eighteenth century—mean nothing if the public doesn't agree with them. And virtually no American today agrees with the Anti-Federalists of old that the federal government must be kept limited, weakened, and confined to a small number of tasks. If no one agrees with the philosophy behind the Bill of Rights, few will care if its provisions are violated."
Ryan McMaken

"The situation of having to belong to a state to which one does not wish to belong is no less onerous if it is the result of an election than if one must endure it as the consequence of a military conquest."
Ludwig von Mises

"In an unfree system, it’s not just rights that are stripped from the citizens. It’s the ability to take responsibility for one’s own finances, business, health, mind, and even one’s own soul. It’s the freedom to choose that’s truly taken. And it’s the loss of human dignity as a result that truly devastates and breaks the spirit."
Chris Campbell