Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
ALDOUS HUXLEYArmaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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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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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.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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