Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
ALDOUS HUXLEYDemocracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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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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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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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