There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it.
Aldous HuxleyBut the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
Aldous HuxleyTags: attributed unsourced rationalizations
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Aldous HuxleyTags: traveling
Every man's memory is his private literature.
Aldous HuxleyTags: literature memory
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
Aldous HuxleyTags: words-experience
Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east...
Aldous HuxleyKebahagiaan adalah produk sampingan yang kita peroleh dalam proses mengerjakan sesuatu yang lain.
Aldous HuxleyAll right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
"Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat, the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind."
There was a long silence.
"I claim them all," said the Savage at last.
For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.
Aldous HuxleyThose who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.
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