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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMan is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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