But today, in the world’s most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.
ALDOUS HUXLEYIf human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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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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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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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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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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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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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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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