We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThere seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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The more you know, the more you see
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All 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.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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