Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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