An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAssembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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 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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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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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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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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