Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
ALDOUS HUXLEYPeople will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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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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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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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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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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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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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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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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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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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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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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