Liberty, 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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYPeople often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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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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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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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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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.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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 pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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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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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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