Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
ALDOUS HUXLEYA 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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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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An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
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The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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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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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can’t be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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