Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLiberty, 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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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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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 people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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