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
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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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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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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