Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIn regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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