By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYA really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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 greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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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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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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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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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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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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