# Quote — Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited

> By means of ever more effective methods of mind-manip­ulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms— elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest—will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitari­anism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slo­gans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial—but democracy and free­dom in a strictly Pickwickian sense. Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of sol­diers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit.

- Author: [Aldous Huxley](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley.md)
- Book: [Brave New World Revisited](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/brave-new-world-revisited.md)
- Page: 25
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/brave-new-world-revisited/by-means-of-ever

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> It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.

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> Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.

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> In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.

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