Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
ALDOUS HUXLEYArmaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Hitler’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.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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As 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.
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