One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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