No social stability without individual stability.
ALDOUS HUXLEYOne believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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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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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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