The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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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.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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