The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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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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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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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 goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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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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