Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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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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