Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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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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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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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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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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