People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
-
-
Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
No social stability without individual stability.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
ALDOUS HUXLEY