One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLove casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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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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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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 more you know, the more you see
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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