Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
ALDOUS HUXLEYI wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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The more you know, the more you see
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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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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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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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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