The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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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.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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