The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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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 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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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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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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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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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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