Quotes About Control

It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

she wasn't a real savage, had been hatched out of a bottle and conditioned like any one else:

Community, Identity, Stability." Grand words. "If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved.

And anyhow the body seemed perfectly well able to look after itself. In reality, of course, it always does look after itself. All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very little and understands not at all.

The Machiavelli of the 20th century will be an advertising man, his Prince , a textbook of the art and science of fooling all the people all the time.

The harder we try with the conscious will to do something, the less we shall succeed.

Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.

In the Brave New World of my prophetic fable technology had advanced far beyond the point it had reached in Hitler's day; consequently the recipients of orders were far less critical than their Nazi counterparts, far more obedient to the order-giving elite.

Organization is indispensable; for liberty arises and has meaning only within a self-regulating community of freely cooperating individuals. But, though indispensable, organization can also be fatal. Too much organization transforms men and women into automata, suffocates the creative spirit and abolishes the very possibility of freedom. As usual, the only safe course is in the middle, between the extremes of laissez-faire at one end of the sacle and of total control at the other.

We need not know a thing in order to be able to investigate and control it. Where knowledge is absent—and in an absolute sense we can know nothing—a vague working hypothesis is quite enough for all practical and even philosophical purposes.

Yes, Mustapha Mond was saying, that's another item in the cost of stability. It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

Brave new world

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

Overpopulation leads to economic insecurity and social unrest. Unrest and insecurity lead to more control by central governments and an increase of their power. In the absence of a constitutional tradition, this increased power will probably be exercised in a dictatorial fashion.

liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government.

the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.

The negative propaganda of silence is probably more effective as an instrument of persuasion and mental regimentation than speech. Silence creates the condition in which such words as are spoken or written take most effect.

Community, Identity, Stability.

Tenemos dos alternativas: por un lado, el hambre, la peste y la guerra; por otro, la regulación de los nacimientos.

But the nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upo them, tend to acquire a taste for more. Lead us not into temptation, we pray--and with good reason; for when human beings are tempted too enticingly or too long, they generally yield.

DziÄ™ki ci, Fordzie! Nie byÅ' ostatni. Trzy spoÅ›ród dwunastu ustawionych wokóÅ' okrÄ…gÅ'ego stoÅ'u krzeseÅ' byÅ'y jeszcze nie zajÄ™te. WÅ›liznÄ…Å' siÄ™ na najbli?sze z nich w miarÄ™ niepostrze?enie i oto ju? gotów byÅ' marszczy? brwi na widok wchodzÄ…cych spó?nialskich. - Bernard Marks, Nowy wspaniaÅ'y Å›wiat Aldous Huxley

Las personas llegarán a amar su opresión, a adorar las tecnologías que deshacen su capacidad de pensar

As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase. In conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope and movies and the radio, it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.

Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness