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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYMost ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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The 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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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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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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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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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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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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