The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
ALDOUS HUXLEYEveryone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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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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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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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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