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#1

“He who knows not, knows not, he knows not, he is a fool shun him.
He who knows not and he knows not, he is simple teach him.
He who knows and knows not that he knows, he is asleep, awaken him.
He who knows and knows that he knows, he is wise, follow him.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

tags: karate-wise, martial-arts

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#2

“Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.”
― Thomas Sowell, Dismantling America: and other controversial essays

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#3

“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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#4

“We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.

But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us.

This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

tags: 1984, aldous-huxley, brave-new-world, desire, fear, george-orwell, huxley, orwell

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#5

“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe

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#6

“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions."

In 1984, Huxley added, "people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us".”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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#7

“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
― Kevin Alfred Strom

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#8

“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: dictatorship, power, revolution

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#9

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
― Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays

tags: history, lessons

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#10

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: child-abuse, conditioning, indoctrination, mind-control, parenting

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#11

“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
― Aldous Huxley

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#12

“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: attributed, intellectualism

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#13

“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. "Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does." They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited

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#14

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: introspection, solitude

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#15

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: hell, life

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#16

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
― George Orwell

tags: military, police, violence

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#17

“Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: orthodoxy

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#18

“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. ”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#19

“We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: enemies

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#20

“The only good human being is a dead one.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: misquote, paraphrased

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#21

“To die hating them, that was freedom.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: die, freedom, hate

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#22

“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”
― George Orwell

tags: life-happiness

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#23

“The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: oppression, power, terrorism, torture

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#24

“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: dictatorship

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#25

“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

tags: war-mongering

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#26

“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#27

“A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, compassion, compassionate, deep, dictum, dictums, dustbin, dustbins, eat, eating, epigram, epigrams, food, garbage, garbage-can, garbage-cans, gnome, gnomes, hobo, hobos, homeless, humor, humour, insightful, leftovers, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, meal, meals, philanthropist, philanthropists, philanthropy, pity, poor, portion, poverty, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, rich, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, sincere, sincerity, sympathetic, sympathy, thought-provoking, thoughtful, trash, trash-can, trash-cans, truly

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#28

“Some women’s greatest achievement is sleeping with a man who is rich, famous, and/or wanted by many women, whereas some women’s greatest achievement is refusing to sleep with such a man.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: achieve, achievement, adage, adages, advance, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, deep, demand, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, fame, famous, gnome, gnomes, groupie, groupies, humor, humour, in-demand, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, man, maxim, maxims, men, poor, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, refusal, refuse, reject, rich, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, sex, sexual-intercourse, sleep-way-to-the-top, sleep-with, thought-provoking, thoughtful, turn-down, woman, women

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#29

“Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, altruism, altruistic, ambition, ambitious, aphorism, aphorisms, aspiration, aspire, axiom, axioms, deep, dictum, dictums, dream, dreams, end-poverty, epigram, epigrams, escape, every-man-for-himself, gnome, gnomes, goal, goals, humor, humour, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, money, monied, philanthropic, philanthropy, poor, poverty, poverty-line, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, rich, riches, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, selfish, selfishness, selfless, selflessness, succeed, success, thought-provoking, thoughtful, wealth, wealthy

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#30

“Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, basic-necessities, deep, dictum, dictums, diet, epigram, epigrams, famine, fat, food, food-shortage, gnome, gnomes, humor, humour, hunger, hungry, insightful, ironic, irony, made-me-think, make-you-think, malnutrition, maxim, maxims, nutrients, obese, obesity, overweight, paradox, paradoxical, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, puzzle, puzzling, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, starvation, starve, thought-provoking, thoughtful, underweight

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