The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
ALDOUS HUXLEYArmaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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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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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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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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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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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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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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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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