Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
ALDOUS HUXLEYBy thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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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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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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