In Brief: Aldous Huxley on the Uninformed Citizenry

From a foreword that Aldous Huxley wrote to A Brave New World, years after the book was first published in 1932:

"Great is the truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects, by lowering what Mr Churchill calls an 'iron curtain' between the masses and such facts or arguments as the local political bosses regard as undesirable, totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have done by the most eloquent denunciations, the most compelling of logical rebuttals."