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.
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.
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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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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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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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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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