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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.

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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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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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