But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
ALDOUS HUXLEYYour true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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