Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.
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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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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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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Which is better – to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
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People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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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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Experience teaches only the teachable.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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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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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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