The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
ALDOUS HUXLEYWe shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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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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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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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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