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 HUXLEYA 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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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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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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