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.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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 Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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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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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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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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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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