Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
ALDOUS HUXLEYExperience teaches only the teachable.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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The more you know, the more you see
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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All 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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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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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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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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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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