The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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