The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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