No social stability without individual stability.
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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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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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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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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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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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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