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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
ALDOUS HUXLEY
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Aldous Huxley116 quotes“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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Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley 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.
Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley 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.
Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley 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.
Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley 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.
Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley 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.
Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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