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.
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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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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