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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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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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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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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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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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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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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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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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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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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.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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