There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThanks 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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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.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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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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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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