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 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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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