“That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.”
― Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies
“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.”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow
“Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.”
― Aldous Huxley
“…most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”
― 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
“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.”
― Aldous Huxley, Island
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
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