There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBeauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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The more you know, the more you see
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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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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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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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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