Every man’s memory is his private literature.
ALDOUS HUXLEYPeople will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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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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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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