Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
ALDOUS HUXLEYRound pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThere seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll 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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
ALDOUS HUXLEYWhen the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
ALDOUS HUXLEYA majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHuman beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
ALDOUS HUXLEYFacts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
ALDOUS HUXLEYArmaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
ALDOUS HUXLEY