People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLiberties are not given, they are taken.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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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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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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