Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life. - Aldous Huxley

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It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.

Aldous Huxley

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

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

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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.

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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.

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