The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
ALDOUS HUXLEYArmaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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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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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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 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.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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