No social stability without individual stability.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAs 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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The 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.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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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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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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