Quotes Library

September 3, 2025

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), English novelist, attributed, Jay p.186

How often do you buy the propagandist’s view that your opponent is totally wrong? Evil? Subhuman?

Demonizing the other is very much a growth industry these days, but it has always been an arrow in the quiver of xenophobes.

August 6, 2025

7 months ago

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety)

January 10, 2025

1 year ago

Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail…In the long run of history,

April 23, 2025

10 months ago

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

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