Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
ALDOUS HUXLEYWherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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