Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLiberty, 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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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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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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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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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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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The more you know, the more you see
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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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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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