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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.

Aldous Huxley

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Always Appeal Consolidate Dictator Patriotism Tyranny
Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Beare Being Country Get Insane Integrate Lynch Rational
Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Better Born Insane Intelligent One Society Stupid
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Arrest Chance Child Continue Contrary Develop Development Given Himself Like Man
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Assemble Capacity Choice Crowd Lose Moral People Power Reason
We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Compassion Intelligence Live Long Nature Only Permitted Planer Shall Treat
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Behave Essentially Good Naturally Sane Try
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Abstraction All Consist Diabolical Human Being Last Propaganda Resort Substitute War
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Artistry Ethical Good Individual Mass Produce Product Spiritual
He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Accept Almost Boredom Come Philosophical Pleasure
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

All Candidate Coach Look Money Need Sincere
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Ignorance Know Vicble Want
It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Forgetting Free Learn Matter Past Remember Yet
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Always Claim Disillusion Father Rebellious Son
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Certain Corner Improve One Own Self Universe
There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

Dictatorship Enthusiasm Good Loss Never One Reson Seem Thoroughly

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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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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