Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLiberties are not given, they are taken.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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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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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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No social stability without individual stability.
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The more you know, the more you see
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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