The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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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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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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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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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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