Huxleyan Quotes & Sayings

Wine, women and song have been replaced by prune juice, a heating pad and the Gong Show. — Bob Hope

What we are confronted with now is the problem posed by the economic and symbolic structure of television. Those who run television do not limit our access to information but in fact widen it. Our Ministry of Culture is Huxleyan, not Orwellian. It does everything possible to encourage us to watch continuously. But what we watch is a medium which presents information in a form that renders it simplistic, nonsubstantive, nonhistorical and noncontextual; that is to say, information packaged as entertainment. In America, we are never denied the opportunity to entertain ourselves. — Neil Postman

The key to motivation is motive. — Stephen Covey

Love is the flow of wind. When it stops, you feel suffocated. — Himanshu Chhabra

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding. — Eleanor Robson Belmont

There are two ways by which the spirit of a culture may be shriveled. In the first - the Orwellian - culture becomes a prison. In the second - the Huxleyan - culture becomes a burlesque. No — Neil Postman

Dear 2016,

If I had any defeats in your team, I am glad they were on my terms.

Love,
Defeated Winner — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down? — Douglas Coupland

I get high in the evening sniffing pots of glue. — Elton John

No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs. — H.L. Mencken

I grew up on you have to work hard for money, you have to work hard for money. And so I replaced that with, money comes easily and frequently. — Loral Langemeier

How strange it was to have the power to cause others to feel something she herself did not feel; and then catch the hint of it in their collective minds, and begin to feel it herself. — Kristin Cashore

January 7 arrived and looked like January 7. The streets were full of gray, frozen people without money. — Maj Sjowall

Because of the confusion surrounding the term "agnosticism," it would seem better to use the very similar term "rationalism" in its place when referring to the original Huxleyan meaning of the term. The use of "rationalist" for "agnostic" would also seem to be less ambiguous. — Gordon Stein