There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
ALDOUS HUXLEYWherever 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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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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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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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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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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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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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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 greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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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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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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