Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThanks 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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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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 mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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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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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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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.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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