Aldous Huxley Quotes

Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.

We are going backwards in a field that’s supposed to be all about moving forward

If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.

Human life moves only in one direction - toward disease, damage, and death. The best you can hope for is to remain stagnant or, in certain cases, return to a previous condition when things weren't as bad as they've become for you.

To get better, you have to get worse.

You either get better or you get worse. Those are the only two options.

My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.

Technology is a many-headed monster and perhaps it would be better to regress to a safer past and avoid technological change; it is tempting to think like that.

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not kept sharp and bright, the law of rust will assert its claim.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

He who does not advance, retreats.

Asians love technology. They see it as the path to a good life. This is not so in Europe where there is much skepticism about technology—maybe because of Nazi Germany and its use of technology.

We wring our hands over the miscarriages of technology and take its benefactions for granted

One step forward, two steps back ... It happens in the lives of individuals, and it happens in the history of nations and in the development of parties.