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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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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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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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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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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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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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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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