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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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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 greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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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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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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