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.
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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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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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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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