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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYWhen the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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