Aldous Huxley Quotes About Society

Quotes about: Society

• Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Powerful, Ignorance, Knowledge

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

• The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Wall, Ignorance

  "The Doors of Perception". Book by Aldous Huxley, www.theguardian.com. 1954.

• If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

  Aldous Huxley

  Insanity, Insane, Society

  Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

• Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Hypocrisy, Evil

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

• To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one; and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, People, Profound

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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