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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMost ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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