There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's--eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim, improve yourself.
I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.
Man is a mental being, and to know this is the first step on the road to freedom, for as long as you believe yourself to be primarily physical, you will remain in bondage, that is to say, to your own habits of thought, for there is no other bondage.
Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.
It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.
Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.
There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.
Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.
You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.
