Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
ALDOUS HUXLEYFor 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
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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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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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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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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