The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEYGood is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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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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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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