The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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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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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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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