"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."
-Aldous Huxley
WorkView Quote
"Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.“
-Aldous Huxley
posted in Great
Other Quotes by Aldous Huxley
Discover more inspiring quotes by Aldous Huxley
"Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image."
-Aldous Huxley
WorkView Quote
"People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are."
-Aldous Huxley
WorkView Quote
"Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you."
-Aldous Huxley
WisdomView Quote
"What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood."
-Aldous Huxley
WarView Quote
"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own."
-Aldous Huxley
WarView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."
-Joseph Addison
GreatView Quote
"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it."
-Horace
GreatView Quote
"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."
-Adam Smith
GreatView Quote
"I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great."
-Shaun White
GreatView Quote
"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
GreatView Quote
"I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas."
-Cher
GreatView Quote