The more you know, the more you see
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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Thanks 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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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