If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHuman 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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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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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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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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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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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.
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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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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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