Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
ALDOUS HUXLEYOne believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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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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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
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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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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
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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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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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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.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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