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Putin has history books rewritten for schools and universities. Ted Cruz has books banned in schools.
Fathers of an idea who ultimately do not differ in their view of society. Neither of them wants responsible, enlightened, self-determined citizens.
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When books are banned or history books are rewritten, the approach is never to protect the citizens but only to preserve the power of individuals.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Heinrich Heine
Education is the friend of propaganda. Anyone who can think for themselves and can form an overall picture based on different facts from different sources is unfortunately useless for populist propaganda.
Just ask the British what happened to the oh-so-much money they supposedly had to pay to the EU after they went through with brexit.
Oh, the money didn't exist and the bus with the cool print was just propaganda from the brexit supporters.
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However, there was a problem with this fact: it was patently untrue. Technically, the UK paid a gross £19.1bn into the EU budget in 2014, which equates to just over £350m a week. But thanks to Margaret Thatcher's hard-nosed negotiating skills in the 1980s, the country also receives a huge rebate of around £4.9bn, which never leaves Her Majesty's Treasury. The British also benefit from billions in various EU subsidies to the public sector. Add it all up and the UK's net contribution is around £9.9bn, just over half the amount touted by Brexit supporters. The total drops even further if you include things like the research funding the EU provides to UK universities.
You could have read about it in various sources, including books, but what the heck, gut feelings and felt facts are cooler!
There's a really clever saying: those who can read have a clear advantage.
Beware of books by people who forbid books. There was once a book that contained everything, and after the catastrophe nobody wanted to read it.
So read, understand and resist!
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Heinrich Heine
Heinrich Heine by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (1831). Heinrich-Heine-Institut, Düsseldorf.