The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
ALDOUS HUXLEYSo long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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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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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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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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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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