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Aldous Huxley

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

Justice , Diversity , Ignorance

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

Thinking , Love , Technology

" 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. "

People , Taken

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

Religion , Mind , Believe

" 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. "

Mind , Believe

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

Progress , Medicine

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

Deception

" 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. "

People , Promise , Luxury

" Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. "

Education

" 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 , Self , Dark

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

Thinking , Compassion , Tyrants

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

Life

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

Positive

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