The 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 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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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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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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