Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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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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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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