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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHigher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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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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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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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 trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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The more you know, the more you see
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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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