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 HUXLEYSo long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
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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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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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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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The more you know, the more you see
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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