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Civilization Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
- Civilization is sterilization.
- Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.
- Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
- God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
- I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.
- Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.
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