Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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