Liberties are not given, they are taken.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAt this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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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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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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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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The more you know, the more you see
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