There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
-
-
Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
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.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
ALDOUS HUXLEY