QUOTES OF THE DAY

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”

Aldous Huxley

“…most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“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

“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.”

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”

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


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