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 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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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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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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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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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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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 propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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