Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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