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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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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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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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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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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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