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 HUXLEYHuman 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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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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