Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBut the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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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 trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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All 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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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