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 HUXLEYThe victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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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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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Armaments, 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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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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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 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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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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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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