The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell … - Aldous Huxley

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If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.

Aldous Huxley

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface.

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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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