Citations de Aldous Huxley

En anglais : "We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability."

Extrait de : "Nous ne voulons pas changer. Tout changement est une menace pour la stabilité. C'est là une autre raison pour que nous soyons si peu enclins à utiliser des inventions nouvelles.'"

En anglais : "Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else."

En anglais: "Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes; to abolish the love of nature, but not the tendency to consume transport. For of course it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it."

En anglais : "Happiness is a hard master--particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestionably, than truth."

En anglais : "Instead of fixing clothes or things that are broken, it is better to throw them away and buy something new. Because the social order depends on the continuous buying and selling of new goods, this piece of social conditioning prevents any individual from stepping outside the rules of capitalism and production. Newness is valued over durability or history."

En anglais "The greater the man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted."

En anglais : "“And that,” put in the Director sententiously, “that is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.”"