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 HUXLEYMedical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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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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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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