But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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.
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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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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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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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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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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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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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