We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
ALDOUS HUXLEYLiberties are not given, they are taken.
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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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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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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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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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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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The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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The 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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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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