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 HUXLEYThe propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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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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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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