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"'There are quiet places also in the mind', he said meditatively. 'But we build bandstands and factories on them. Deliberately - to put a stop to the quietness."
"A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic."
"A doctor a day keeps the jim-jams away. (Related to "an apple a day keeps the doctor away") A Hypnopædic message on the necessity of doctoral visits."
"A gramme is better than a damn. A slogan encouraging people not to dwell on gloomy thoughts, but to obliterate them with drugs."
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music."
"All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant."
"All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects. Another summarisation of the drug soma."
"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex."
"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."
"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 religous or political ideas."