Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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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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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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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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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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The more you know, the more you see
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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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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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