Aldous Huxley
Novelist and essayist (1894 to 1963), author of Brave New World (1932), who in Brave New World Revisited (1958) argued that its prophecies of mass manipulation were arriving sooner than he had expected.
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Their wordsThe nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative.
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Their wordsAn unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.
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Their wordsOnly the vigilant can maintain their liberties, and only those who are constantly and intelligently on the spot can hope to govern themselves effectively by democratic procedures.
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Their wordsUnder a scientific dictator education will really work — with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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