The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEYPeople intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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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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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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