The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
ALDOUS HUXLEYWords 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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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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Liberty, 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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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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