The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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The more you know, the more you see
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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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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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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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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