There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHuman beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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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.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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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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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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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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If 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 most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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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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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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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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