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 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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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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.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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