Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom. – Aldous Huxley
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. – Aldous Huxley
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time ones never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. – Aldous Huxley
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. – Aldous Huxley