Aldous Huxley Quotes About Tyranny

Quotes about: Tyranny

• 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Powerful, Army, Brave New World

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

• 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.

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Dictator, Appeals, Tyranny

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

• The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .

  Aldous Huxley

  Lying, Civilization, Waiting

• 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 Huxley

  Lying, Men, Names

  Aldous Huxley (1993). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel”, p.133, Ivan R. Dee

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