The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
ALDOUS HUXLEYEveryone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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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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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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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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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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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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