Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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