Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThere seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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