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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLiberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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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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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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