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.
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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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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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.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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