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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYExperience teaches only the teachable.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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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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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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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.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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