One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBut the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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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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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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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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The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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