FAMOUS ENLIGHTENING QUOTES
"Vulgas vult decepi"
- the people wish to be decieved. -- Phaedrus
"Dissent is the highest
form of patriotism" - Thomas Jefferson
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
- Who watches the watchmen?" -- Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347
"The lie can be maintained
only for such time as the State can shield the people from the
political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie.
It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of
its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy
of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest
enemy of the State." -- Dr. Joseph M. Goebbel
"Oh Mortal Man, is there
nothing you cannot be made to believe?" -- Adam Weishaupt
"Don't be deceived when
they tell you things are better now. Even if there's no poverty
to be seen because the poverty's been hidden. Even if you ever
got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and
useless goods which industries foist on you and even if it seems
to you that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of
those who still have much more than you. Don't be taken in when
they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's
no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because
if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their
marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people
of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch
out, for as soon as it pleases them they'll send you out to protect
their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile
scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with
a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces."
-- Jean Paul Marat, 18th Century French Visionary
"The length and severity
of depressions depend partly on the magnitude of the 'real' maladjustments,
which developed during the preceding boom and partly on the aggravating
monetary and credit conditions."
- Gotfried Haberler, Prosperity and Depression, 1937
"The honest man must be
a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity.
For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make
himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive,
indefatigable renascent errors." -- Charles Peguy
"The first rule is to keep
an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face
and know them for what they are." -- Marcus Aurelius
"Such as it is, the press
has become the greatest power within the Western World, more
powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One
would like to ask: by whom has it been elected, and to whom is
it responsible?" --Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Violence does not and
cannot exist by itself; it is invariably intertwined with the
lie." -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"These sectors of the doctrinal
system serve to divert the unwashed masses and reinforce basic
social values: passivity, submissiveness to authority, the overriding
virtue of greed and personal gain, lack of concern for others,
fear of real or imagined enemies, etc. The goal is to keep the
bewildered herd bewildered." -- Dr. Noam Chomsky, from What
Uncle Sam Really Wants
"The individual is handicapped
by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot
believe it exists." -- J. Edgar Hoover
"We have come to be one
of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and
dominated Governments in the world - no longer a Government of
free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of
the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small
groups of dominant men." -- Woodrow Wilson
"Every time we do something
you tell me America will do this and will do that... I want to
tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure
on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans
know it." -- Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, October
3, 2001
"Once a government resorts
to terror against its own population to get what it wants, it
must keep using terror against its own population to get what
it wants. A government that terrorizes its own people can never
stop. If such a government ever lets the fear subside and rational
thought return to the populace, that government is finished."
-- Michael Rivero
"News is what someone wants
to suppress. Everything else is advertising." -- Rubin Frank,
former NBC news president
"Our job is to give people
not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have."
-- Richard Salent, former President CBS News
"By way of deception, thou
shalt do war." -- Motto of the Mossad
"All warfare is based on
deception." -- The Art Of War, Sun Tzu
"Our government has kept
us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede
of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous
foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly
rally behind it ..." -- General Douglas MacArthur, 1957
"Voice or no voice, the
people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That
is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing
the country to danger." -- Hermann Goering, at the Nuremberg
Trials
"The whole aim of practical
politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence, clamorous
to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of
hobgoblins, all of them imaginary" -- H.L. Mencken
"The opinion of 10,000
men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject."
-- Marcus Aurelius
"The owners of the Washington
Post long ago acknowledged that the Post is the government's
voice to the people. In 1981, Katherine Graham, who owns the
Post and Newsweek announced that her editors would 'cooperate
with the national security interests.' National security in this
context means 'CIA'." -- John Stockwell, former CIA official
"The news and truth are
not the same thing." -- Walter Lippmann, American journalist,
1889-1974
"I don't want you to follow
me or anyone else. I would not lead you into the promised land
if I could,
because if I could lead you in, somebody else would lead you
out." --- Eugene V. Deba
"No man is free who is
not master of himself. --- Epictetus
"If your happiness depends
on what someone else says or does, I guess you do have a problem."
--- Richard Bach
"The happiness of your
life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." --- Marcus
Antonius
"The game of life is the
game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us
sooner or later, with astounding accuracy." --- Florence
Shinn
“Believe that you can’t,
or believe that you can. Either way, you’re right."
--- Henry Ford
"By a continuous process
of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved,
an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method,
they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and
while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some....The
process engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on the
side of destruction, and does it in a manner that not one man
in a million can diagnose." - John Maynard Keynes Economic
Consequences of the Peace, 1920
"If you are very early
in a chain letter, you can make money, but there's no money created.
"--- Warren Buffett, April 2000 shareholders meeting
If it were not for Greenspan
– Mr. Productivity Miracle, Mr. Irrational Exuberance, Mr.
Printing Press, and Mr. Deflation – many of the paradoxes
confusing investor’s today would not be so poignant... --
Fallstreet.com
"We in the Congress have
a moral and constitutional obligation to protect the value of
the dollar and to understand why it is so important to the economy
that a central bank not be given the unbelievable power of inflating
a currency at will and pretending that it knows how to fine tune
an economy through this counterfeit system of money." --
Dr. Ron Paul, US Congressman, R, Texas
"The central bank is an
institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the
Principles and form of our Constitution. I am an Enemy to all
banks discounting bills or notes for anything but Coin. If the
American People allow private banks to control the issuance of
their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the
banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive
the People of all their Property until their Children will wake
up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered. "...
- Thomas Jefferson
If we run into such debts as
that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries
and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings
and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like
them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, and
give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their
debts and daily expenses; And the sixteen being insufficient
to afford us bread, we must live, as they do now, on oatmeal
and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the
mismanagers to account; But be glad to obtain subsistence by
hiring ourselves to rivet their chains around the necks of our
fellow sufferers; And this is the tendency of all human governments.
A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent
for a second, that second for a third, and so on 'til the bulk
of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no
sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering...and the forehorse
of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that,
and in its train wretchedness and oppression. -- Thomas Jefferson
"Every mania in financial
history has been liquidity driven. You can go back to the South
Sea Bubble or tulips in Holland. As long as the money is coming
in, everything is fine. " - Raymond DeVoe, Dec. 11, 1995
"Today's economy was probably
experiencing a once-in-a-century acceleration in innovation,
but people may well conclude that a good deal of what we are
currently experiencing was just one of the many euphoric speculative
bubbles that have dotted human history." - Alan Greenspan,
January 2000
"The length and severity
of depressions depend partly on the magnitude of the 'real' maladjustments,
which developed during the preceding boom and partly on the aggravating
monetary and credit conditions." --- Gotfried Haberler,
Prosperity and Depression, 1937
There can be few fields of human
endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world
of finance. Past experience, to the extent that it is part of
memory at all, is dimissed as the primative refuge of those who
do not have the insight to appreciate the incredible wonders
of the present." --- John Kenneth Galbreith, A Short History
of Financial Euphoria
"With real-estate prices
up, you would think that Americans would be rolling in home equity.
But as fast as they lay hands on it, they are borrowing it out.
" --- Nicholas Retsinas, director of the Joint Center for
Housing Studies at Harvard University. SF Gate, 8/11/01
"For 5 years at least,
American business has been in the grip of an apocalyptic holy-rolling
exaltation over the unparalleled prosperity of the 'new era'
upon which we have entered." --- Business Week, 1929
“The borrower is the slave
to the lender." -- King Solomon
"Regrettably, history is
strewn with visions of such 'new eras' that, in the end, have
proven to be a mirage. " - Alan Greenspan, February 1997
“The big question is how
much longer will the Plunge Protection Team (set up after the
1987 crash) be able to prop up the stock market? At best the
Plunge Protection Team's manipulation of the stock market can
only give it temporary bounces within the context of a long-term
bear market." -- State Gazette, 07/2003
"All sense of fiscal discipline
seems to have disappeared” -- ECB, Duisenberg, 2003
“This push toward easing
is a global phenomenon” -- Reuters, 2003
"A consumption boom financed
by debt and home equity withdrawal; skinny profit margins; interest
rates about to start rising. It looks like the ingredients of
a train wreck" -- The Age, 11/2003
"...Resources have been
misallocated because of the cheapness of credit in both stock
and credit markets. So, you're not going to solve the problem
by making money cheaper again." - Al Friedberg, Welling@Weeden,
March 23, 2001
"Whoever controls the volume
of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and
all commerce ... and when you realise that the entire system
is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful
men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation
and depression originate." -- President James A. Garfield,
just a few weeks before he was assassinated on July 2nd, 1881.
Today's economy was probably
experiencing a once-in-a-century acceleration in innovation,
but people may well conclude that a good deal of what we are
currently experiencing was just one of the many euphoric speculative
bubbles that have dotted human history." - Alan Greenspan,
January 2000
You never need an argument against
the use of violence, you need an argument for it. – Noam
Chomsky
"A tyrant must put on the
appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less
apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider
god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily
move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."--
Aristotle
Do not ever say that the desire
to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust
nor stupidity are good motives.
– Ayn Rand
I'd like to
see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole
field to private individuals. – Joseph Heller
"There
can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for
so little as in the world of finance. Past experience, to the
extent that it is part of memory at all, is dimissed as the primative
refuge of those who do not have the insight to appreciate the
incredible wonders of the present."- John Kenneth Galbreith,
A Short History of Financial Euphoria
We are on the verge of global
transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the
nations will accept the New World Order -- David Rockefeller
"As America becomes an
increasingly multicultural society, it may find it more difficult
to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the
circumstances of a truly massive and widely perceived direct
external threat." -- Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
"The fate of the world
economy is now totally dependent on the growth of the U.S. economy,
which is dependent on the stock market, whose growth is dependent
on about 50 stocks, half of which have never reported any earnings."
--- former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, September 1999
"I can thank God at this
moment that He has so wonderfully blessed us in our hard struggle
for what is our right..." Adolf Hitler, Speech in Berlin,
October 6, 1939
"Instead of blaming Mr.
Greenspan, we should reflect on the willing suspension of disbelief
that allowed us to ignore everything we have been taught about
sound investing." - Steven Rattner, New York Times, April
4, 2001
I abhor war and view it as the
greatest scourge of mankind. – Thomas Jefferson.....If Tyranny
and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of
fighting a foreign enemy. – James Madison.
A patriot must always be ready
to defend his country against his government. – Edward Abbe.
This president failed so miserably
in diplomacy that we are now forced to war. – Tom Daschle
Why should you ask blood be
spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American
people? – Rep. Wally Herger
Economically considered, war
and revolution are always bad business. – Ludwig von Mises...
War is the Health of the State. – Randolph Bo
There is nothing more frightening
than active ignorance. – Goethe
“In politics, nothing happens
by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
What luck for rulers that men
do not think. -- Adolf Hitler
" The liberty of a democracy
is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power
to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state
itself. That in its essence is fascism - ownership of government
by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power.
" President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
When the tyrant has disposed
of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear
from them, then he is always stirring up some war
– Plato
The world is governed by very
different personages from what is imagined by those who are not
behind the scenes." --Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli of
England, in 1844.
"The Council on Foreign
Relations (CFR) is the American Branch of a society which originated
in England ... (and) ... believes national boundaries should
be obliterated and one-world rule established."-- Professor
of History Carroll Quigley, Georgetown University, in his book
"Tragedy and Hope".
"Some of the biggest men
in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture,
are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere
so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete,
so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath
when they speak in condemnation of it." - Woodrow Wilson
"[The New World Order]
cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most
significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World
Order, and it will force the United States to change it's perceptions."
-- Henry Kissenger, World Affairs Council Press Conference, Regent
Beverly Wilshire Hotel , April 19th 1994
"David Rockefeller is the
most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a
multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy
and manage the flow of its capital. Rockefeller was born to it,
and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as
a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance
of life and justanother day's work... In the world of David Rockefeller
it's hard to tell where business ends and politics begins"
. Bill Moyers
"We know in the not too
distant future, a half dozen corporations are going to control
the media. We took this step (merger) to ensure we were one of
them"--Time Warner spokesperson.
"We shall have World Government,
whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World
Government will be achieved by conquest or consent." --
Statement made before the United States Senate on Feb. 7, 1950
by James Paul Warburg ("Angel" to and active in the
United World Federalists), son of Paul Moritz Warburg, nephew
of Felix Warburg and of Jacob Schiff, both of Kuhn, Loeb &
Co. which poured millions into the Russian Revolution through
James' brother Max, banker to the German government - See the
Siss?on Report
"All of us will ultimately
be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a NEW
WORLD ORDER."--Robert Kennedy, former U.S. Attorney-General,
1967.
"The real rulers in Washington
are invisible and exercise their power from behind the scenes."--
Justice Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court.
"I am concerned for the
security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat
from without, but because of the insideous forces working from
within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
"For some time I have been
disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from it's original
assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy
making arm of the government." -- President Harry Truman
"The real truth of the
matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the
large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the
days of Andrew Jackson."-- U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
in a letter written Nov. 21, 1933 to Colonel E. Mandell House.
"The real menace of our
Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus
sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation."--
Mayor (1918-1925) John F. Hylan of New York.