Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHuman beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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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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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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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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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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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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 ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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 propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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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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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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