That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
ALDOUS HUXLEYNo social stability without individual stability.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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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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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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