Aldous Huxley Quotes

• People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Technology, Thinking

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• There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it.

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  Taken, Nwo, People

  "The Ultimate Revolution". Aldous Huxley's speech at Berkeley Language Center, www.informationclearinghouse.info. March 20, 1962.

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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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  Wall, Believe, Mind

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• The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

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  Believe, Mind, Religion

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• Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

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  Medicine, Healthy, Progress

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• Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

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  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

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  Luxury, People, Promise

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• The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

  Aldous Huxley

  Thinking, Compassion, Tyrants

  1937 The Olive Tree.

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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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Truth, Freedom, Knowledge

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  Proper Studies "A Note on Dogma" (1927)

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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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  Ignorance, Reality, Ignored

  Aldous Huxley (2003). “Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience”, Crossroad 8 Avenue

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• It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling.

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  Children, Dark, Self

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  Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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  Wish

  "Brave New World Revisited". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 12 (p. 116), 1958.

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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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  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Time Must Have a Stop (1945) ch. 7

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• The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

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  Light, Numbers, People

  Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

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• This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country´s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody. To parody the words of W. Churchill, never have so many been manipulated so much by few.

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  Country, Communication, Media

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

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  Dictator, Appeals, Tyranny

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspiring, Education, Procrastination

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• Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Kings, Truth

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “Island”, p.72, Random House

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• Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.

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  Power, Technology, Political

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

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  Equality, Sun, Sun Rise

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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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Mind, Littles

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• Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.

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  Country, War, Agency

  1956 'Brave New World Revisited', in Esquire.

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• The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.

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  Real, Struggle, Voice

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