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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYTo be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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