Social Quotes by Aldous Huxley

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.

— Aldous Huxley

The social body persists although the component cells may change.

— Aldous Huxley

“It is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.”

— Aldous Huxley

No social stability without individual stability.

— Aldous Huxley

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

— Aldous Huxley

It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.

— Aldous Huxley

If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be…

— Aldous Huxley

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment… The world, you must…

— Aldous Huxley

I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they…

— Aldous Huxley

And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do.…

— Aldous Huxley

One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at…

— Aldous Huxley

My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead…

— Aldous Huxley

It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests…

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt…

— Aldous Huxley

To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary…

— Aldous Huxley

You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy;…

— Aldous Huxley