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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMedical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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The 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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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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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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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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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 is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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