Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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