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Brave New World (1932)
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And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else
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Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.
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"Give them a few figures, Mr. Foster," said the Director, who was tired of talking.
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Fertilize and bokanovskify — in other words, multiply by seventy-two — and you get an average of nearly eleven thousand brothers and sisters in a hundred and fifty two batches of identical twins, all within two years of the same age.
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Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better
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In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.
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Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.
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The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth.
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In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual.… Physically and mentally, each one of us is unique. Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual, commits an outrage against man's biological nature.
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Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
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Propaganda in favor of action that is consonant with enlightened self-interest appeals to reason by means of logical arguments based upon the best available evidence fully and honestly set forth. Propaganda in favor of action dictated by the impulses that are below self-interest offers false, garbled or incomplete evidence, avoids logical argument and seeks to influence its victims by the mere repetition of catchwords, by the furious denunciation of foreign or domestic scapegoats, and by cunningly associating the lower passions with the highest ideals, so that atrocities come to be perpetrated in the name of God and the most cynical kind of Realpolitik is treated as a matter of religious principle and patriotic duty.
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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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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about, that at their first appearance, innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen.
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It is a political axiom that power follows property.
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In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well being.
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I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.
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Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
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Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.
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Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. 'Great is the truth', but still greater…is silence about truth.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
Aldous Huxley
Born:
July 26, 1894
Died:
November 22, 1963
(aged 69)
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