All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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 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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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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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.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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