I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYTechnological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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The 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.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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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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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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