People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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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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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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