A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMan is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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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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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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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 more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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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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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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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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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