Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
ALDOUS HUXLEYArmaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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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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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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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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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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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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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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