All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
ALDOUS HUXLEYA majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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