Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.
Aldous HuxleyGreat is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
Aldous HuxleyGreat is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
Aldous HuxleyWell... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.
Aldous HuxleyYou got rid of them. Yes, thatโs just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether โtis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end themโฆ But you donโt do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. Itโs too easy.
Aldous Huxley