Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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