The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
ALDOUS HUXLEYDemocracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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