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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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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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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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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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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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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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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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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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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 propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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