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People Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up…
- All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.
- To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the…
- In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low.
- The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating…
- People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
- Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
- Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things…
- There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin…
- People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of…
- What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can…
- You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what…
- The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No,…
- Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than…
- For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of…
- A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
- Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only…
- To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction.…
- People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
- There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
- People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
- The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
- Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
- The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
- Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle