Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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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 child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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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.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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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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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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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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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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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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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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