Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
ALDOUS HUXLEYArmaments, 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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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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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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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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Love 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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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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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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People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
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