Aldous Huxley Propagandist Quotes & Sayings

The demagogic propagandist must therefore be consistently dogmatic. All his statements are made without qualification. There are no grays in his picture of the world; everything is either diabolically black or celestially white. In Hitler's words, the propagandist should adopt "a systematically one-sided attitude towards every problem that has to be dealt with." He must never admit that he might be wrong or that people with a different point of view might be even partially right. Opponents should not be argued with; they should be attacked, shouted down, or, if they become too much of a nuisance, liquidated. The morally squeamish intellectual may be shocked by this kind of thing. But the masses are always convinced that "right is on the side of the active aggressor. — Aldous Huxley

She smiled and was suddenly young again. How does it feel to know where you are going? — Patrick Rothfuss

Only weak men want women to be weak. — Anne Fortier

I am sorry. I lost something there. Like a path I was walking that dead-ended, and now I am alone and lost in the forest, and I am here and I do not know where here is any more. — Neil Gaiman

The problems in our world will never be solved by people who hate and use violence but will be solved by people who use love and kindness, as their weapons showing humanity repeatedly that they truly care.
Bullying Ben — Timothy Pina

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. — Aldous Huxley

Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. — Ilana Mercer

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew. — Oliver Goldsmith

At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with their large vocabularies. By the excesses of their language, these young men and women try to hide their sense of inexperience. With maturity the writer becomes more secure in his ideas. He finds his real tone and develops a simple and effective style. — Jorge Luis Borges

You cannot win if you cannot run. — Hank Stram

All of the courses that run through real streets are very demanding. There is no room for error, no shoulders to lean on. If you go off the road, you're into somebody's shop-window or front porch. — Mario Andretti

It would be a combination of comfort and surprise an audience might appreciate. — Lorrie Moore