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The 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.

Aldous Huxley

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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Advocate Early Envisage Free Literacy Possibility Press Propaganda Regar Two Universal
Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Act Addiction Desire Give Increase Less Satisfaction
Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Experience Happen
Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Cage Exist Gilded Just Liberty World
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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Being Centralized Concentrate Democracy Economic Expect Flourish Hardly Political Power Progressively Society
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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Acquire Even Focus More Nature Power Sought Such Taste Tend
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.
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Believe Free Hi Invivble Manipulation Mind Myself Person Victim Wall
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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Being Country Evolve Incapable Intellect Newton Pay Person Price Progress Race Supreme
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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Greater Greta Partial Silence Still Truth View
Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Given Litertaure Taken
The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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Generation How Liberate Love Make Mass Next Question Rather
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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All Candidate Coach Look Money Need Sincere
The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Human Make One People Propagandist Purpose Set
The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Always Been Discover Goal Life Suppose
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Great Knowledge Pleasure Torrance Way
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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Belong Claim Cow Dingle Disgraceful Mindedness Person Same Shakespeare Simple Species Very Well

The 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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The 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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