Aldous Huxley Quotes

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

He who shouts “long live” has to pay for the funeral.

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

Politicians don't like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we are held accountable. Fail to meet your responsibilities at work, and you get fired. Ignore your car's gas gauge, and you get stranded.

People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone might feel like they've gotten away with something, or that what they said couldn't have been that bad.

You recognize the truth because sometimes it's hard to swallow, but if you hold it in your mouth, refusing to eat it, you are going to choke.

Freedom ... comes with a price tag of great expectations.

If you speak the truth - and I believe people should speak the truth about Islam - you pay a very heavy price.

I'm obviously going to own up that I cheated and I got caught.

If you make mistakes, you pay for them.

I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.

nothing good ever comes out of denying the truth about our situation.

There's a Spanish proverb," he said, "that's always fascinated me. "Take what you want and pay for it, says God.'" "I don't believe in God," Daniel said, "but that principle seems, to me, to have a divinity of its own; a kind of blazing purity. What could be simpler, or more crucial? You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and that you will have to pay it.

Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.

For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.

Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.

You may not get what you paid for, but you will pay for what you get.

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

I'm not scared, because I know that I need to face the trial. What I mean is, I already expect I will need to pay the price.

If you argue against reality you will suffer.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

Stop talking about the murders, and we won't know they're happening. And then we can all just live in a bubble that isn't reality.

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.