The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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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.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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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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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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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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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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