There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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The more you know, the more you see
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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