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Freedom Quotes by Aldous Huxley

55 Freedom quotes by Aldous Huxley

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A forced declaration of freedom shows that liberty can be imposed whether people want it or not. The quotes note that when political and economic freedom shrink, sexual freedom often grows, and that true liberty cannot survive under a permanent war footing. They also list personal wishes like God, poetry, danger, and freedom as essential desires.

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“I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want sin.”

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“Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.”

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We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

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Liberties are not given, they are taken.

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“I’ll MAKE you be free whether you want to or not.’ -The Savage”

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“I'll teach you; I'll make you be free whether you want to be or not.”

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

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“I don't want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want goodness. I want sin.”

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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

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Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

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“You can only be independent of God while you've got youth and prosperity; independence won't take you safely to the end.”

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Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and…

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Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

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“But as time goes on, they, as all men, will find that independence was not made for man- that it is an…

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“Education for freedom must begin by stating facts and enunciating values, and must go on to develop appropriate techniques for realizing the…

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“Two great appetites of the soul - the urge to independence and self-determination and the urge to self-transcendence - were fused with,…

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Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they…

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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it…

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“Imagine a factory staffed by Alphas—that is to say by separate and unrelated individuals of good heredity and conditioned so as to…

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... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what…

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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war…

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The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are…

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“The values, first of all, of individual freedom, based upon the facts of human diversity and genetic uniqueness; the values of charity…

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This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all…

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“In the street he drew a deep breath. He was free. Free from recollection and anticipation. Free, for an hour or two,…

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“As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensating to increase. And the dictator (unless he needs cannon fodder and families…

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Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth… Dramabegins where there's freedom of…

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“I am not very sociable and am always glad to return to solitude and the freedom that goes with solitude. This desire…

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“I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; consequently assumed that it had not; and was able without…

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“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I…

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“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be…

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“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be…

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“It must be something voluntary, something self induced - like getting drunk, or talking yourself into believing some piece of foolishness because…

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“Thus, it is a political axiom that power follows property. But it is now a historical fact that the means of production…

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“In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be…

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“Me as I think I am and me as I am in fact - sorrow, in other words, and the ending of…

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“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I…

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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.vvvvvvvvvv

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But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I…

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All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

“What you need is a gramme of soma.” “All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.”

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