An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEYNo social stability without individual stability.
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Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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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 more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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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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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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.
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The more you know, the more you see
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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A 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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No social stability without individual stability.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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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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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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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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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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