Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
ALDOUS HUXLEYPeople will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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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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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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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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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.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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