Quotes by Aldous Huxley

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.