A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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The 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.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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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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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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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.
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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