People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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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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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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