When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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 worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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