The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
ALDOUS HUXLEYOne believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The more you know, the more you see
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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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 is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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