The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
ALDOUS HUXLEYEveryone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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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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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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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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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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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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