The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
ALDOUS HUXLEYReality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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