Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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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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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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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