Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
ALDOUS HUXLEYBy thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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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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