No social stability without individual stability.
ALDOUS HUXLEYPeople will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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The more you know, the more you see
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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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 hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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