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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIt’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.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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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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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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.
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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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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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