To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
ALDOUS HUXLEYEveryone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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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.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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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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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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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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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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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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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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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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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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The more you know, the more you see
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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