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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYEveryone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
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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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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.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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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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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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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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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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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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