Society Quotes by Aldous Huxley

14 Society quotes by Aldous Huxley

Huxley’s keen eye for cultural shifts shines through these fourteen passages, offering a blend of cautionary insight and hopeful speculation about how we organize ourselves.

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“Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.”

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“Not philosophers, but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.”

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“From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.”

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“Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society.”

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“Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.”

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To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of…

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All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can…

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Home, home -- a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys…

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Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a…

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“The past is not something fixed and unalterable. Its facts are re-discoverable by every succeeding generation, its values re-assessed, its meaning re-defined…

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men…

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The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went…

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“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol." ... "There was a…

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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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