The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
ALDOUS HUXLEYConsistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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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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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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