A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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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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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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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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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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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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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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