Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
ALDOUS HUXLEYGreat 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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The more you know, the more you see
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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