# Quote — Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited

> In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or it might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies—the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distraction.

- Author: [Aldous Huxley](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley.md)
- Book: [Brave New World Revisited](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/brave-new-world-revisited.md)
- Page: 35
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/brave-new-world-revisited/in-regard-to-propaganda

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