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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYDictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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 worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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 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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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