There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHitler’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.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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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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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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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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