As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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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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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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