The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLove casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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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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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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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 propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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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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The 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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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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