The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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