By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLiberties are not given, they are taken.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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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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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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 secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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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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