Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
ALDOUS HUXLEYArmaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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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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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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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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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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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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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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