Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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Ignore 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?
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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