The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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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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The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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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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