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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYNever give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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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The more you know, the more you see
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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