The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHigher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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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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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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