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.
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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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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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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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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