Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMy father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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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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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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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