Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
ALDOUS HUXLEYA majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom…it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
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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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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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No social stability without individual stability.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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