Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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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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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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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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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry
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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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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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