The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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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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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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