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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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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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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 pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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