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.
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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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 secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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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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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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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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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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The 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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