But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
ALDOUS HUXLEYYour true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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