The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBut the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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