1) “When you or I write a check there must be sufficient funds in our account to cover to the check, but when the Federal Reserve writes a check there is no bank deposit on which that check is drawn. When the Federal Reserve writes a check, it is creating money.” The Boston Federal Reserve, “Putting It Simply”
2) “Sending good people in to reform a state is like sending virgins in to reform a whorehouse.” Anonymous
3) “Let them march all they want, so long as they continue to pay their taxes.” Alexander Haig. Secretary of State to President Ronald Reagan
4) “It would take a salary of $396,536 today (2013) to equal in purchasing power a $35,000 income in 1980.” John Williams, Shadowstats.com
5) “Inflation has also eroded savings. $10,000 in the bank in 1980 would need to have grown to $113,296 in 2013 to be of equal value. That banked $10,000 in 1980 would have to yield about 8% compound interest over 33 years to equal $113,296 today. That never happened.” John Williams, shadowstats.com
6) “If corporations are people then they should be executed for mass murder.” Roseanne Barr
7) “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” Mahatma Gandhi
8) “The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it.” John Kenneth Galbraith
9) “The Banks own the Senate.” Illinois Senator Dick Durbin
10) “The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank… sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent rewards in the business world.” Professor Carroll Quigley, “Tragedy and Hope”
11) “The world will soon wake up to the reality that everyone is broke and can collect nothing from the bankrupt, who are owed unlimited amounts by the insolvent, who are attempting to make late payments on a bank holiday in the wrong country, with an unacceptable currency, against defaulted collateral, of which nobody is sure who holds title.” Anonymous
12) “The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.” — Harry S Truman, 33rd US President
13) “No amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack, nor the atomic bomb, nor anything. You can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.” Robert A. Heinlein
14) “A ballot is just a substitute for a bullet. If your vote isn’t backed by a bullet, it is meaningless. Without the bullet, people could ignore the election outcome. Voting would be pointless. Democracy has violence at its very core!” Muir Matteson, “The NonViolent Zone”
15) “Thus we can see that – at least at the level of economics – democracy is a sort of slow-motion suicide, in which you are told that it is the highest civic virtue to approve of those
who want to rob you.” Stefan Molyneux
16) “The idea that the State is capable of solving social problems is now viewed with great scepticism – which foretells a coming change. As soon as scepticism is applied to the State, the State falls, since it fails at everything except increasing its power, and so can only survive on propaganda, which relies on unquestioning faith.” Stefan Molyneux
17) “Corporations are legal fictions created by the State to shield executives from liability… It’s like if I had a little hand-puppet, and I went to rob a bank, and the hand-puppet held the little gun and told people to hand over all the money, and then the hand-puppet grabbed the money and ran out, and then I got caught and I handed the hand-puppet over the police and then the police tried the hand-puppet, put the hand-puppet in jail, and I get to keep all the money.” Stefan Molyneux
18) “Politicians are propaganda, the people with guns are the enforcers and the media is the enthusiastic lapdog who enables the entire behavior and acts as the verbal abuser against those who deviate from nodding their heads at the vast statues of evil that we inherited.” Stefan Molyneux
19) “The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.” Stefan Molyneux
20) “If men are good, you don’t need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don’t dare have one.” Robert LeFevre
21) “I would define government as a group of men who sell retributive justice to the inhabitants of a limited geographical area at monopolistic prices.” Robert LeFevre
22) “A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.” Milton Friedman
23) “Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.” Milton Friedman
24) “Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.” Milton Friedman
25) “I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.” Milton Friedman
26) “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.” Milton Friedman
27) “Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.” Milton Friedman
28) “You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.” Will Hunting
29) “Government’s three major funding sources are not voluntary exchanges of value. They are taxation, money printing, and borrowing (with no intention of ever paying back the loan). More accurate terms would be: robbery, counterfeiting, and loan fraud.” Muir Matteson, “The NonViolent Zone”
30) “The problem with the state isn’t a bad politician here or there. It’s not just the Republicans. It’s not just the Democrats. (It’s not limited to any party in any country.) The problem is the state. It creates opportunities for plunder and abuse that are enormously attractive to anyone with the potential capacity to use it to exploit others.” Gary Chartier, Conscience of an anarchist
31) “The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits or be so dependent upon its favours that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.” The Rothschild brothers of London writing to associates in New York, 1863.
32) “The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled. With something so important, a deeper mystery seems only decent.” John Kenneth Galbraith (1908- ), former professor of economics at Harvard, writing in ‘Money: Whence it came, where it went’ (1975).
33) “The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is, perhaps, the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banks can in fact inflate, mint and un-mint the modern ledger-entry currency.” Major L L B Angus.
34) “I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create money. And they who control the credit of the nation direct the policy of Governments and hold in the hollow of their hand the destiny of the people.” Reginald McKenna, as Chairman of the Midland Bank, addressing stockholders in 1924.
35) “The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.” William Paterson, founder of the Bank of England in 1694, then a privately owned bank
36) The real truth of the matter is,as you and I know, that a financial
element in the large centers has owned the government ever since
the days of Andrew Jackson… -Franklin D. Roosevelt
(in a letter to Colonel House, dated November 21, 1933)
37) “I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.” Woodrow Wilson a few years after having signed into law the Federal Reserve Act of 1913
38) “History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance.” James Madison
39) “I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.” George W. Bush, June 18, 2002
40) “The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.” George Orwell
41) “Today 200 of the world’s richest people now control more than $3 trillion between them, after they collectively gained $8.4 billion just yesterday.” Greg Guenthner
42) “One of the traditional methods of imposing Statism or Socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. Most people are reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care to people who possibly can’t afford it. The doctor begins to lose freedoms. It’s like telling a lie and one leads to another. First you decide the doctor can have so many patients. They are equally divided amongst the various doctors by the government, but then the doctors aren’t equally divided geographically. So a doctor decides he wants to practice in one town. The government says to him ‘You can’t live in that town. They already have enough doctors. You have to go someplace else.’ From here it’s only a short step to dictating where he will go. This is a freedom that, I wonder whether any of us have the right to take from any human being. Take it into your own occupation or that of your husband. All of us can see what happens. Once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man’s working place, working methods, and determine his employment, from here it’s a short step to socialism to determining his pay and pretty soon your son won’t decide when he’s in school, where he will go and what he will do for a living. He will wait for the government to tell him where he will go to work and what he will do.” Ronald Reagan 40th US President
43) “Since the general civilization of mankind I believe there are more abridgments of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachment by those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.” James Madison 1788 Virginia Convention
44) “…if I contracted cancer, I would never go to a standard cancer treatment centre. Only cancer victims who live far from such centres have a chance.” Dr. Charles Mathe, French cancer specialist
45) “There are several cures for cancer, but there’s no money in them. They’re natural, effective, and inexpensive, no expensive drugs are involved but they require quite a lot of self-discipline from patients. It costs millions to fund research and clinical trials needed to produce a new cancer drug that can be patented and sold. Often these drugs create more illness. It has been said that the key to success in the health business is to pull off the trick of making people patients for life. Consider how many people who registered a couple of abnormal blood pressure readings have been kept on medication until the medication killed them, when a quick fix course of drugs supported by major changes of diet and lifestyle would have returned their physical condition to an unmedicated healthy state.” Dr. Robert Atkins, MD, of Atkins Diet
46) “A study of over 10,000 patients shows clearly that chemo’s supposedly strong track record with Hodgkin’s disease (lymphoma) is actually a lie. Patients who underwent chemo were 14 times more likely to develop leukemia and 6 times more likely to develop cancers of the bones, joints, and soft tissues than those patients who did not undergo chemotherapy.” Dr. John Diamond, M.D
47) “We have a multi-billion dollar industry that is killing people, right and left, just for financial gain. Their idea of research is to see whether two doses of this poison is better than three doses of that poison.” Dr. Glenn Warner
48) “As a chemist trained to interpret data, it is incomprehensible to me that physicians can ignore the clear evidence that chemotherapy does much, much more harm than good.” Dr. Alan C. Nixon, past president of the American Chemical Society
49) “Most cancer patients in this country die of chemotherapy. Chemotherapy does not eliminate breast, colon, or lung cancers. This fact has been documented for over a decade, yet doctors still use chemotherapy for these tumors.”
50) “Whenever you find yourself in the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” Mark Twain
A practitioner of Eastern Healing arts with degrees in Acupuncture and Chinese medicinal herbs, I have always questioned the status quo, a path which led me to peaceful anarchism. Through my journey, I have worn many hats, that of a classical pianist, avid chess player, philosopher, comedian, and now father of two little anarchists. My wife brands me as a Cultural Critic, but I am simply following my thirst for knowledge and passion for writing.
