Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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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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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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