Sunday, December 20, 2020

Quotes of the Week

Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:

"How many weddings have been canceled or celebrated in private this year thanks to lockdowns? How many shared meals have not been eaten? Dances left undanced, songs left unsung, conversations not had? How many parents and grandparents in nursing homes did not get to see their loved ones before they departed this earth? How many children have suffered in front of a screen alone all day? These are not mere frivolous luxuries that we humans can do without. The dual material and spiritual contexts of our personhood cannot be separated. These contexts of our families and communities are not nice additions to life, they are human life itself."

Zachary Yost

"We must always keep in mind who the real enemies are. The leftists are insane, but they are also a symptom of the disease, not the source of the cancer. The globalists fund and influence multiple factors within the current conflict; remove the cancerous cells and the mortal threat to the body disappears. We don't kill the body to treat the body, we cut out the tumor."

Brandon Smith

"Technocrats must always have a plan, in which we are units to be fitted into slots. This is their sickness.

We are the cure.

This is the war."

Jon Rappoport

"When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jackboots. It will be Nike sneakers and smiley shirts."

George Carlin

"I find that the use of force by tyrants is predicated on the assumption that the people they are seeking to control will not fight back effectively. As soon as people do fight back effectively, the tyrant is shocked. Most tyrants rise to power, not because they have won multiple battles and subdued their opponents, but because they never had to fight in the first place. Or they win a handful of easy battles, often staged to look more victorious than they really were, and then use those mediocre wins as a means to terrify all future opposition into not fighting. The tyrants start to believe their own lies and presume their own invincibility.

Predators do not seek out hard targets, they seek out weak targets. The solution to tyrants is for the hard targets to seek them out and strike them in the midst of their confidence. When predators get hit back, they have a habit of running away.

But this requires people who do not live in fear of what might happen when they fight back. The concept of sacrificing comfort or much worse can't be an issue. Fear fades away when a person fights for something more than himself. It's not always about personal survival, sometimes it's about the survival of future generations, or the survival of a set of principles. As that fear disappears, so does the illusion of control that tyrants rely on."

Bob Livingston

"We conquered diseases the same way we overcame parochial economic stagnation—by competition and trade, not by protection and quarantine. We won through ubiquitous exposure, not by retreat and isolation. 

We overcame the billions of potentially deadly viruses not chiefly by vaccinations and new drugs and hygienic practices, but by spreading diseases more widely, educating the immune systems and biomes of people around the world.

Today public health experts and therapeutic states entertain the idea that they can fight disease by quarantining the healthy as a new caste of 'masked untouchables,' locking down our economies, and summoning vaccines for every new threat. 

But viruses are an intrinsic part of the human biome. The only reason we populate the globe in billions is that our systems learned how to deal with them."

George Gilder

"All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them."

Hannah Arendt

"This is not just another economic downturn. It is not just another bump in the road, or another war against non-existent foreign monsters. It is not an outside terror attack, or any natural disaster. This is a war on the people from the inside. This is very real, and without mass resistance now there will be no return to normal, as the people have allowed this heinous government at the behest of its masters to gain control that will never be relinquished voluntarily. The plan for the future has been exposed, and it can only lead to slavery of the people by the few that make up this authoritarian oligarchy bent on creating a technocratic state of total control."

Gary D. Barnett

"Today, the objective of the media is not to offer news. It is to create strife – to pit one half of the electorate against the other. In doing so, the ruling elite have the justification to lock down the entire USA under martial law.

Once that has been accomplished, the elite may do as they please. As in all countries where a police state has been achieved – such as Nazi Germany, Mao’s China or Stalin’s Russia – once military control has been put into place nationwide, meaningful protest ends.

In each of the above cases, the populace was whipped up into a frenzy of hate and violence against the Jews or the aristocracy or whatever other demon had been invented. But the real objective and the result were the subjugation of the populace.

The American populace has been programmed like windup toys, with the ruling elite winding up the keys on their backs as tightly as they will go. When the levers are released, Americans will act dramatically and, in many cases, blindly.

At this point, it’s not too late for people to stand back, take a deep breath and ask themselves if they’re not being conned into their own subjugation. But it would appear that they’ve been wound up so tightly that such objectivity is unlikely to occur."

Jeff Thomas

"The latest Leftist lingo about a 'unified nation' is straight out of the Hitler/Stalin/Mao/Castro political playbook.  Given that all human beings are unique and have thousands/millions of differing views about just about everything, there can be no such thing as unanimous agreement in politics, as the 'unified nation' lingo suggests.  What totalitarian socialist vermin like Joe Biden, Sandy Ocazio, Schumer, Pelosi, et al mean is using as much government coercion as possible to force their views on everyone else.  They want to turn America into one big slave plantation with themselves as the overseers.  Their 'Green New Deal' is a recipe for totalitarian control over virtually all human behavior, far bolder than anything the Soviets ever attempted.

Anyone who values freedom and abhors slavery needs to understand that ideological diversity is our strength.  That is why American universities, with very few exceptions, have stamped it out:  They are thinly-disguised socialist indoctrination academies."

Tom DiLorenzo

"There’s good advice and you can take advice and you can give advice. But once you mandate it, it doesn’t become advice. It becomes a form of tyranny."

Rand Paul

"Notice that it is a person of Indian descent and a black American who are defending our democracy from the white liberal-left. The enemy of Americans are not blacks or Russians or Chinese or Iranians.  Our enemies are the White Liberals and the leftwing Identity Politics fascists.  These self-hating whites hate white people who they demonize as racists.  These self-hating whites are dupes of the Establishment who use them to destroy democracy and accountable government, which the Establishment regards as being in the way of the Establishment’s agendas.  The white liberal-left are enabling the elite’s destruction of American democracy."

Paul Craig Roberts

"Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think."

Gil Courtemanche


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