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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
-
-
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
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
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY






