Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThere seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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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 older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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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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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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