"Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests'."
Albert Camus
"In order to save us from certain slavery, secession is the answer to eliminating the massive power that has been attained by this horrendous government. Instead of considering secession as an impossibility due to the complicated nature of going about gaining independence through the state political process, consider simply the idea of removing all support for government and its edicts individually. All should be based on individual unity, as our numbers are incredibly large, and their numbers are incredibly small. Say no to every government order; get away from their money and monetary system at every opportunity. Refuse to obey mandates, protect your health and immune systems, refuse any injection of poison, open up every business in this country, and defend your freedom by whatever means necessary. That is the way to regain American integrity, and to stop this planned oppression and takeover of humanity."
Gary D. Barnett
"[Public health] is the health of the state. It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the government coercing into obedience the [numerical] minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense. The machinery of government sets and enforces the drastic penalties; the minorities are either intimidated into silence . . . . Minorities are rendered sullen . . ."
Randolph Bourne
"In his movie Platoon, Oliver Stone's character Chris Taylor says: 'Hell is the impossibility of reason.' If this doesn't describe the social justice movement today then I don't know what does. If a group of people is determined to make every single tragedy about racism and 'white supremacy' despite all facts to the contrary, and then use those tragedies as an excuse for mass violence, then they are zealots, and zealots are dangerous. They are cultists with a mission, and they will do anything to accomplish that mission.
In this case, the mission of Marxists within BLM is to destroy the very fabric of America, burn it to the ground, and then rebuild it into an unrecognizable husk devoid of principles or freedom. Yeah, I don't think conservative gun owners are going to go along with that. Burning down their own neighborhoods is one thing, but I have little doubt they will ultimately try to spread beyond the borders of their own garbage cities. And, when they do, we will be there to put an end to it."
Brandon Smith
"The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly."
Robert Anton Wilson
"Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves."
Eric Hoffer
"Domination to-day is not a product of armies or navies or wealth or policies. It is a domination based on the one hand upon accomplished unity, and on the other hand upon the fact that opposition is generally characterized by a high degree of disunity.
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society."
Edward Bernays
"Not only is dissent vital to the hard work of making the world a better place, but it is also absolutely essential to our humanity and to realizing our true and full potential. The critical thinking that empowers dissent is not just good thinking, it’s only the kind of thinking that is able to yield true knowledge, understanding, insight, and wisdom. And on those rare occasions when it is applied in government, dissent contributes to better policy decisions and outcomes. The fact that we live under the boot of so many horrendously bad policies suggests that something other than critical thinking is at work — and apparently so on a massive scale. Indeed, we suffer from far too much consensus and far too little dissent, the consequences of which we see in the disastrous herd mentality that rules the day."
George Gilder
"Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people."
Walter Lippman
"A state of war exists when there is declared or undeclared military conflict. But this is not the only war. A state of war exists when oppressive authority under the color of law and seductive persuasion gradually diminishes our natural rights to life, liberty and property.
Today we live in a state of war with the U.S. government. The fact that almost no one is aware is a tribute to the deceptiveness of our political process.
Why do most people not feel the oppression of government in spite of so many things that look so obvious to some of us? I can give you one answer and I believe it to be true: The more dependent one is on government authority, the less likely he is to see government and its politicians as an adversary.
Nowhere is this more evident than the new debate over immigrants surging over the border, and Comrade Xoe Xiden's unwillingness to do anything about it aside from meekly saying 'No, stop, don't' from the basement of the White House."
Bob Livingston
"There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after work and drew up a Social Contract to form the state. But nobody has been able to find an actual record of it. Practically all the governments whose origins are historically established were the result of conquest—of one tribe by another, one city by another, one people by another. Of course there have been constitutional conventions, but they merely changed the working rules of governments already in being."
Henry Hazlitt
"Is it any wonder people become anti-vaxxers? That the least of us (arrogant Experts etc.) treat people like something that needs scraping off their shoes makes it rational to distrust what they’re selling.
It’s worse than that. Obviously, if the costs outweigh the benefits of the vaccines, then these Experts have blood on their hands when they manage to coerce someone into taking a vaccine they shouldn’t have taken. But also, suppose the benefits of these experimental vaccines really do outweigh their costs. Then because the boorish and ludicrous behavior of Experts cause people to forgo the vaccine, then the Experts are responsible for killing people. Either way, Experts acting like jackasses cause harm."
William Briggs
"Our rulers have led us from one unnecessary slaughter to the next; and, to make matters worse, they have exploited each such occasion to fasten their chains around us more tightly. Like the ancient Israelites, we Americans shall never have real, lasting peace so long as we give our allegiance to a king — that is, in our case, to the whole conglomeration of institutionalized exploiters and murderers we know as the state."
Robert Higgs
"The claims of social justice ideologues amount to a form of philosophical and social idealism that is enforced with a moral absolutism. Once beliefs are unconstrained by the object world and people can believe anything they like with impunity, the possibility for assuming a pretense of infallibility becomes almost irresistible, especially when the requisite power is available to support such a pretense. […] Because it usually contains so much nonsense, the social and philosophical idealism of the social justice creed must be established by force, or the threat of force."
Michael Rectenwald
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