My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll 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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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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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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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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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