People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIn 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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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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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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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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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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