People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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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 deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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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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