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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.

Aldous Huxley

Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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Better Born Insane Intelligent One Society Stupid
Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Cage Exist Gilded Just Liberty World
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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Ignorant Illusion Knowledge Most Ourselves Painful Pleasure Prefer Remain Self
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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Certain Corner Improve One Own Self Universe
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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Armament Debt Obsolescence Pillar Plan Prosperity Universal Western
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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Belong Claim Cow Dingle Disgraceful Mindedness Person Same Shakespeare Simple Species Very Well
For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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Great Human Justifier Least Malice Miseries Motivation Stupidity Third Two
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Being Country Evolve Incapable Intellect Newton Pay Person Price Progress Race Supreme
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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Beare Being Country Get Insane Integrate Lynch Rational
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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How Intoxicate People Really Themselves Work
The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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Bread Circus Dictator Enough Miracle Mysteries never Old Reach Subject
Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Education Guarantee Higher Necessarily Virtue
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Artistry Ethical Good Individual Mass Produce Product Spiritual
The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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Believe Free Hi Invivble Manipulation Mind Myself Person Victim Wall
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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Act Being Capable Great Human Irritation Seem Variety Way
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Always Bullying End Everyone Good Human Race Universal Wants

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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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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