Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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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.
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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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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.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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