Quote

Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation.

Aldous Huxley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Godalming
Surrey
Aldous Leonard Huxley
Cases
Industrialization
Progress
Systemic
Call
Acceleration
Many
Wasting
Thing
Exploitation
Assets
Rate
Merely

More quotes by Aldous Huxley

Image
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well being.
Aldous Huxley
Image
In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The flower of the present rosily blossomed.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The only consistent people are the dead
Aldous Huxley
Image
But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.
Aldous Huxley
Image
If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
Aldous Huxley
Image
The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.
Aldous Huxley
Image
For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day of his life. What these convalescent eyes saw, his most casual speech would reveal.
Aldous Huxley
Image
Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust
Aldous Huxley
Image
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
Aldous Huxley
Image
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'
Aldous Huxley
Image
I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.
Aldous Huxley