Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
ALDOUS HUXLEYPeople intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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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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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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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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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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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