“We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“We are all, as Huxley says someplace, Great Abbreviators, meaning that none of us has the wit to know the whole truth,… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“But wouldn’t you like to be free to be happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way, for example; not… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“What we are confronted with now is the problem posed by the economic and symbolic structure of television. Those who run television… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“He acted as if he could detect in her face nothing but its external beauties of form and texture. Whereas, of course,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“You and Aldous Huxley", she said, "both have the same superior hate for the rest of the human race and wouldn't go… — Kate Hennessy Copy Share Image
“What Huxley teaches is that in the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley. — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
“It would be pleasant to believe that the age of pessimism is now coming to a close, and that its end is… — Dennis Gabor Copy Share Image
“We can always be sure of one thing—that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Modern man is actually close to the picture Huxley describes in his Brave New World : well fed, well clad, satisfied sexually,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image