Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe 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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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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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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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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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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