All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
ALDOUS HUXLEYNever give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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