Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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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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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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