Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
ALDOUS HUXLEYPeople will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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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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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.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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 unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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