Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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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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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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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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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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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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