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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Aldous Huxley

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Adore Capable Come Love Oppression People Technology Think
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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From History Important Learn Lesson Men Much Very
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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Behave Essentially Good Naturally Sane Try
The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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Anyone Daily Done Letting Lord Million Own Petition Prayer Repeat Slightest Third
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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All Army Boss Control Efficient Excite Manager One Political Population Powerful Really Start Totalitarian
As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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Correspondingly Demishes Economic Freedom Increase Political Sexual Tend
The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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Art Better Desire Do Dread Greater Intelligent Nothing Population Responsibility Told
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Great Knowledge Pleasure Torrance Way
Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Act Addiction Desire Give Increase Less Satisfaction
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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Another Being Either Hang Human Kill Like Really Shown Themselves Vermin
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Ignorance Know Vicble Want
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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Cast Conversely Cost Fear Love
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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Book Great Inform Instructive Merely Must Number Quick Read
Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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Chance Children Exist Give Imaginem Anything Isolation
There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Dictatorship Enthusiasm Good Loss Never One Reson Seem Thoroughly
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Artistry Ethical Good Individual Mass Produce Product Spiritual

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