I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHigher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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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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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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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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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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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.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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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 propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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