Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll 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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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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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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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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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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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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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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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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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