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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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