Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
ALDOUS HUXLEYArmaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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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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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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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