I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYA 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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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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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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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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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 the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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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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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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