Carolina QuotesWithin the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narcohypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
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Letters of Aldous Huxley, (1969)
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- 1969
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