People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
ALDOUS HUXLEYA child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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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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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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