Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
ALDOUS HUXLEYDictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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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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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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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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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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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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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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