“Lodges are occult and secret centers of power! Journalists/politicians should be required by law to publicly declare whether they are members!”

— Filip Dewinter

Filip Dewinter: Following the series in De Standaard, here's an anthology of tweets: http://vrijmetselarijvoordummies.blogspot.com/2012/02/twitter.html

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Flemish politician 1962

Gottfried de Purucker (1874–1942) Author, Theosophist

The Masters and the Path of Occultism (1939)

“One of the members indicated here that all this should have been done in secret. This was the intention; this never was supposed to be in the open. But in any case, the spies exposed it. We did not want to declare all this.”

Hassan Rouhani (1948) 7th President of Islamic Republic of Iran

In response to a question from an audience member
2004 speech to the Supreme Cultural Revolution Council

“The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God.”

Albert Pike book Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), Ch. XXXII : Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.”

Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist

Source: (1776), Book I, Chapter VIII, p. 94.

“You must be very scrupulous not to gather power in to the center just because you can do it. Power corrupts, that’s the basic law of politics. Maybe the only law.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 3, “A New Constitution” (p. 156)

“This is the essence of the problem. To Dan Rather and to a lot of other powerful members of the chattering class, that which is right of center is conservative. That which is left of center is middle of the road. No wonder they can't recognize their own bias.”

Bernard Goldberg (1945) American journalist

Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News (2001)

“It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.”

Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet

As quoted in The Book of Poisonous Quotes (1993) edited by Colin Jarman, p. 232.

“The publicly and privately supported colleges, universities, and research institutes are the centers of basic research. They are the wellsprings of knowledge and understanding.”

Vannevar Bush (1890–1974) American electrical engineer and science administrator

Science - The Endless Frontier (1945)
Context: The publicly and privately supported colleges, universities, and research institutes are the centers of basic research. They are the wellsprings of knowledge and understanding. As long as they are vigorous and healthy and their scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems in Government, in industry, or elsewhere.

“Harvey, Galileo, Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, revealers of the secrets of a New Order of the Ages. After all, the movement eventually came to be called the Age of Enlightenment.”

Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982) American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientious objector

Shakespeare: The Tempest (p. 132)
Classics Revisited (1968)

“Public policy requires that some hardship should be suffered by individuals rather than that judicial proceedings should be held in secret.”

William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher (1815–1899) British lawyer, judge and politician

Kimber v. The Press Association (1892), L.R. 1 Q.B. [1893], p. 69.

“Lodges are occult and secret centers of power! Journalists/politicians should be required by law to publicly declare whether they are members!”

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