Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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