Aldous Huxley Quotes About Addiction

Quotes about: Addiction

• In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Dope, People

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

• Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

  Aldous Huxley

  Giving, Addiction, Desire

• It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sex, Evil, Addiction

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.358, Transaction Publishers

• After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

  Aldous Huxley

  Reading, Thinking, Self

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.82, Sheba Blake Publishing

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