The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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