Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
ALDOUS HUXLEYTo be a fool at the right time is also an art.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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The more you know, the more you see
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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.
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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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