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.
ALDOUS HUXLEYAddiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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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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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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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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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
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