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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYTechnological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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