But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
ALDOUS HUXLEYWe shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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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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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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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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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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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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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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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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