The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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.
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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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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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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 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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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The more you know, the more you see
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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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