Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHitler’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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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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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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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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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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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