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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYWhich is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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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.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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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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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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