Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
ALDOUS HUXLEYAs 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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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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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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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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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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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