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 HUXLEYThe survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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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.
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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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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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