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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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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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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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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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