The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIn 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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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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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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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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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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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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