He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
ALDOUS HUXLEYA really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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The more you know, the more you see
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