Aldous Huxley Quotes

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.

The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space.

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.

If you give human beings power over others, their natural tendency is to be fascists.

… so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

this monster, this Colossus of Despotism ... a deep laid scheme to enslave us.

... timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty.

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.