The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
ALDOUS HUXLEYWhich is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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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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Democracy 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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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In 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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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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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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