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?
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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