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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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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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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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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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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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