All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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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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The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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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 worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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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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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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