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Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we want to get rid of war we must get rid first of all of its psychological causes. Only when this has been done will the rulers of the nations even desire to get rid of the economic and political causes.

— Aldous Huxley Ends and Means (1937)

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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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