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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Love, Technology, Thinking

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it.

Taken, Nwo, People

"The Ultimate Revolution". Aldous Huxley's speech at Berkeley Language Center, www.informationclearinghouse.info. March 20, 1962.

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.

Wall, Believe, Mind

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Believe, Mind, Religion

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Medicine, Healthy, Progress

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

... 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.

Truth, Freedom, Knowledge

Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

Luxury, People, Promise

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Inspirational, Motivational, Education

Proper Studies "A Note on Dogma" (1927)

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

Thinking, Compassion, Tyrants

1937 The Olive Tree.

It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling.

Children, Dark, Self

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.

Ignorance, Reality, Ignored

Aldous Huxley (2003). “Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience”, Crossroad 8 Avenue

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Time Must Have a Stop (1945) ch. 7

This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country´s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody. To parody the words of W. Churchill, never have so many been manipulated so much by few.

Country, Communication, Media

Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

Country, Kings, Truth

Aldous Huxley (2009). “Island”, p.72, Random House

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

Dictator, Appeals, Tyranny

Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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.

Country, War, Agency

1956 'Brave New World Revisited', in Esquire.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

Lonely, Loneliness, Different

Anthony Astrachan, Aldous Huxley (1984). “Aldous Huxley's Brave New World”, p.71, Barron's Educational Series

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Ignorance, Justice, Diversity

Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

Civilization, Three, Debt

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Learning, Health, Men

Collected Essays (1959) "Case of Voluntary Ignorance"

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Lonely, Powerful, Loneliness

Aldous Huxley (1957). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

Birthday, Children, Mean

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.

Years, People, Technique

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