Aldous Huxley Quote: Why We Might Love Our Own Oppression
“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.”
Aldous Huxley
“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.”
Aldous Huxley
“The tales of gouged-out eyes and severed hands which appear on the third or fourth day of every war filled the newspapers. They did not know, those innocents who spread such lies, that the accusation of every possible cruelty against the enemy is as much war materiel as are munitions and planes, and that they are systematically taken out of storage at the beginning of every war. War does not permit itself to be coordinated with reason and righteousness. […] Shakespeare was banned from the German stage, Mozart and Wagner from the French and English concert halls, German professors declared that Dante had been Germanic, the French that Beethoven had been a Belgian, intellectual culture was requisitioned without scruple from the enemy countries like grain and ore. […] After a few weeks, determined to escape this dangerous mass psychosis, I moved to a rural suburb to commence my personal war in the midst of war, the struggle against the betrayal of Reason by the current mass passion.”
Stefan Zweig
“Nothing in this world operates the way you think it does. Banks do not loan money, governments are not empowered to protect you, the police department is not there to serve you, institutions of higher learning, colleges and educational institutes, are not there to educate you. The entire superstructure of civilization in the Western world is a combination of brilliantly put together and planned, well-planned, schemes to direct the minds of the people in such a way as to serve their masters.”
Jordan Maxwell
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
Frank Zappa
“Governments should not have this capacity. But governments will use whatever technology is available to them to combat their primary enemy – which is their own population”
Noam Chomsky
“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”
Jonathan Swift
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
Herbert George Wells
“I always tell people. News is the most highly developed form of fiction. The most difficult.”
Donald Pleasence
“Whoever should once play with the state of emergency to limit freedom will find my friends and me on the barricades in defense of democracy, and this is meant quite literally.”
Willy Brandt
