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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThere is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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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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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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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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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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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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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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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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