An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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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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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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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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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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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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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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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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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