The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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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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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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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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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.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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