Volksschulen, 2006. “Only Hegel is fit for America”
-Walt Whitman, quoted in Dark Voices: W.E.B.
Du Bois and American Thought, 1888-1903, Shamoon Zamir, 1995, page 125.
“Historic responsibility has to
make up for the want of legal responsibility. Power tends to corrupt, and
absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even
when they exercise influence and not authority, still more when you superadd the
tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy
than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.”
‘‘These great nations are simply the
operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who have
become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible
while operating behind the national scenery. Always their victories were in the
name of some powerful sovereign-ruled country. The real power structures were
always the invisible ones behind the sovereign powers.’’
-Richard Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path, 1981, page 72.
“So you see, my dear
Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what is
imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”
-Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister, Coningsby, or the new generation, 1844.
"World events do not occur by accident: they are made to happen, whether
it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are
staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings."
-Denis Healey, former British Defense Minister"To assist in keeping up the deception, we will form secret societies and clubs… and so by fair means or by foul we shall gain our ends and carry on our dishonest proceedings with impunity."
-Plato, The Republic. Book II, page 48.
"One of the principle agencies by which revolutionary traditions and passions have been kept alive in many countries in Europe has been the political association, especially the secret society. In such societies ruling groups receive their education and are trained in the arts of inflaming passions in the masses and leading them toward given ends. When it becomes possible to write the history of the nineteenth century impartially, much space will have to be given to the effectiveness with which the Masonic lodges, for example, managed to disseminate liberal and democratic ideals, and so caused rapid and profound modifications of intellectual trends in a great part of European society. Unless we assume an active, organized and well-managed propaganda on the part of such groups, it would be hard to explain how it has come about that certain points of view that were the property of highly exclusive coteries in a select society at the end of the eighteenth century can now be heard expressed in the remotest villages by persons and in environments that certainly have not been changed by any special education of their own."
-Gaetano Mosca, The Ruling Class, 1896, page 219.
"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas."
-Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology, Parts I and II, 1947, page 39.
"A conspiracy is rarely, if ever, proved by positive testimony. When a crime of high magnitude is about to be perpetrated by a combination of individuals, they do not act openly, but covertly and secretly. The purpose formed is known only to those who enter into it. Unless one of the original conspirators betray his companions and give evidence against them, their guilt can be proved only by circumstantial evidence...and circumstances can not lie."
-Special Judge Advocate John A. Bingham, quoted in The Trial Of The Conspirators, Washington, 1865.
"Which of the following, would those who
are so ready to cry '
Conspiracy
Theory!' have us believe? That people with enormous fortunes and/or
high political positions do not have greater ability than the ordinary citizen
to get what they want? That men and women who spend most of their adult lives
seeking to obtain or retain money and influence do so only in order to abstain
from employing the advantages these confer? That those with wealth and power
are inhibited by some mysterious force from making use of either to accomplish
their purposes? That the rich and well-placed not only practice such
extraordinary self-denial as individuals, but that they also steadfastly refuse
to cooperate with their peers in the pursuit of common political-economic
goals? All of these notions are, of course, absurd on their face. People strive
for wealth and power precisely because the more of either one possesses, the
more readily one can have his way in every realm—professional, political,
personal. Moreover the idea that the rich and powerful shrink from uniting with
others of the same station is even more laughable. If, in fact, there is one
thing that characterizes those at the top of the heap, it is their readiness to
organize amongst themselves to secure their desires. No other group in society
even comes close in this regard."
-Frank Kofsky, Harry S. Truman and the War Scare
of 1948, 1995, page 302.
"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."
-Will Durant
“Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men (plus a few women). This group will be called the Establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order. [...] A second secret is the fact that the existence of the Establishment -- the ruling class -- is not supposed to be discussed.”
-Arthur S. Miller, George Washington University law professor
"The case for government
by elites is irrefutable."
-Senator William Fulbright, Former chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
stated at a 1963 symposium entitled: The Elite and the Electorate - Is Government by the People Possible?
"We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."
-Attributed to David Rockefeller, Baden-Baden, Germany 1991.
“Some
even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests
of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘Internationalists’
and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated
global and economic structure- one world, if you will. If that’s the charge. I
stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
"Within the next
hundred years... nationhood as we know it will
be obsolete; all states will recognize a single
global authority. A phase briefly fashionable in
the mid 20th century -- 'citizen of the world'
-- will have assumed real meaning by the
end of the 21st century."
-Strobe Talbot, Former
Deputy Secretary of State, Time, July
20th, 1992.
“Deluded people: You must understand that there exists a conspiracy in favor of despotism and against liberty; incapacity against talent; of vice against virtue; of ignorance against light! It is formed in the depths of the most impenetrable darkness, a society is to rule the world, to appropriate the authority of sovereigns, to usurp their place."
-Marquis de Luchet, 1789.
"Even minutiae should have a place in our collection, for things of seemingly trifling nature, when enjoined with others of a more serious cast, may lead to valuable conclusion."
-General George Washington, Master Mason.
“If you give a man the correct information for seven years, he may
believe the incorrect information on the first day of the eighth year
when it is necessary, from your point of view, that he should do so.
Your first job is to build the credibility and authenticity of your
propaganda and persuade the enemy to trust you, although you are his
enemy.
-A Psychological Warfare Casebook, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1958 p.38“If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one
discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running,
opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and
mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of
shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations,
crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for
political favors. One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured
labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and
scab labor -- backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. 'Old
money' is often little more than dirty money laundered by several
generations of possession.”
-Michael Parenti
“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had
men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States,
in the field of commerce and manufacturing are afraid of somebody, afraid of
something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle,
so watchful, so interlocking, so complete, so pervasive that they had better
not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”
-Woodrow Wilson, The New
Freedom, 1913. page 6.
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness in high places."
-Ephesians 6:12"...the twenty-first century, I suppose, will be the era of World Controllers, the scientific caste system and Brave New World."
-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited, 1958,
page 27.
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