"... the greater part of the population is……" — Aldous Huxley
"... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled."
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Aldous Huxley
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533 Quotes by Aldous Huxley
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
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Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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