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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYWhen the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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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.
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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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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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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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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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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