At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
ALDOUS HUXLEYArmaments, 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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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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 third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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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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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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