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.
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
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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.
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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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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