“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.” “There was a thing called Heaven but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.” “One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.” …”What you need,” the Savage went on, “is something withtears for a change. ![]() Whether ’tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows or outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them…But you don’t do either. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. “…reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays….” People believe in God because they’ve been conditioned to.” Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons–that’s philosophy. ![]() As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. “You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. “You might as well ask if it’s natural to do up one’s trousers with zippers,” said the Controller sarcastically. “But isn’t it natural to feel there’s a God?” Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.” “Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. And then,” he added in a lower tone, “I ate my own wickedness.” “Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” “…most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.” “I claim them all,” said the Savage at last.” “Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent the right to have syphilis and cancer the right to have too little to eat, the right to be lousy the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow the right to catch typhoid the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.” “All right then,” said the savage defiantly, I’m claiming the right to be unhappy.” Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.” On no account brood over your wrongdoing. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. “Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. ![]() “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.” These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.” Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. “Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does.” They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. “The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal.
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