“The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they invariably are, the result is individual passivity, a state of inertia that precludes action.” MeanStatesActionAmericaFormIndividualResultsCommunicationMythManipulationDevotedEmployedInertiaPassivity Author:Herbert Schiller
“There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.” SometimesSeemsPurposeWaitingResultsStrangeAll ThingsMethodPatientAccidentsProvidenceEmployedBe Patient Book:Mark Twain's Fables of Man Source: Mark Twain's Fables of Man
“The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence--that sort of innocence. With the result that we're now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.” MenAgeFacesPoorResultsWifeCenturyReadyBottomGreedLustInnocenceMaking LoveEmployedNeighbourGrindNineteenth CenturyRefrainPinchingLove Lust Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley