Liberty? Why it doesn’t exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAll war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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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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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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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.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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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 victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
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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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