Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThat men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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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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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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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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