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A 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.

Aldous Huxley

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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Believe Free Hi Invivble Manipulation Mind Myself Person Victim Wall
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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Ignorant Illusion Knowledge Most Ourselves Painful Pleasure Prefer Remain Self
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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Except Higher Ignore Longer More Must Persist Price Really Terrible
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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Appear Elector Ignorance Nonsense Politician Powerful Propaganda World
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Cease Exist Face Ignore
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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Generation How Liberate Love Make Mass Next Question Rather
An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Found Intellectual Interesting More One Person Thing
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Eclipse Thrill Truth Unexciting
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Certain Improve One Only Orner Own Self Universe
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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Arrest Chance Child Continue Contrary Develop Development Given Himself Like Man
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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Greater Greta Partial Silence Still Truth View
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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Correspondingly Demishes Economic Freedom Increase Political Sexual Tend
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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Bread Circus Dictator Enough Miracle Mysteries never Old Reach Subject
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Backward Efficient Going Mean Merely More Progress Provide Technological
Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Experience Happen
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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Always Contrary Determine End Justify Mean Nature never Such Universe

A 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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A 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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