The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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