The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
ALDOUS HUXLEYNo social stability without individual stability.
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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The more you know, the more you see
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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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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