Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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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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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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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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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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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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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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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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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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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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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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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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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 greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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