life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
ALDOUS HUXLEYThere seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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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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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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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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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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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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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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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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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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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