All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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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 distractions.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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