Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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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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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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