By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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.
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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