Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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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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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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