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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, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution."
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"We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us."
"The oppressor is never as free as they think they are."
"The hardest memory of slavery that Rialla had to bear was not the lack of freedom, it was the lack of desiring freedom."
"When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive."
"To Survive In A Ruined World, She Must Embrace The Darkness."
"When you don't make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors."
"Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?"
"Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition."
"Slaves in the past were captured by force, today's slaves surrender themselves. The masters are the same old folk (who are now more civilized) who would not lift a hand against a fellow human being! They have established economic systems that perpetuate their superiority so the poor are blamed either for their laziness or their fate."
"Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress."
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"Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive, even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy."
"My soul is a pale, tenuous membrane..."That was pleasing: a thin, tenuous membrane. It had the right anatomical quality. Tight blown, quivering in the blast of noisy life. It was time for him to descend from the serene empyrean of words into the actual vortex. He went down slowly. "My soul is a thin, tenuous membrane..."
"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations of misery."
"The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in livingcreatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human beings it was visible only when they were inrepose, their minds untroubled, their bodies motionless."
"La filosofía nos enseña a sentir incertidumbre ante las cosas que nos parecen evidentes. La propaganda, en cambio, nos enseña a aceptar como evidentes cosas sobre las que sería razonable suspender nuestro juicio o sentir dudas."
"But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable, fact does not."
"With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to resist as the temptation to read promiscuously, omnivorously and without purpose. From time to time, it is true, I make a desperate resolution to mend my ways. I sketch out programmes of useful, serious reading; I try to turn my rambling voyages into systematic tours through the history of art and civilization. But without much success. After a little I relapse into my old bad ways. Deplorable weakness! I try to comfort myself with the hope that even my vices may be of some profit to me."
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