Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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