Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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 older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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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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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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