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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYOne believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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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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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 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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Love 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.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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