Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIt isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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