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 HUXLEYIgnore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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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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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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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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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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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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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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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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