Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThat men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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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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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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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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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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