The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
ALDOUS HUXLEYArmaments, 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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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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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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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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No 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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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