The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMy father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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 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.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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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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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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