Quote by Aldous Huxley
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, s

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. – Aldous Huxley

Other quotes by Aldous Huxley

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them. – Aldous Huxley

Category:
Health
Read Quote

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. – Aldous Huxley

Category:
Freedom
Read Quote

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. – Aldous Huxley

Category:
Truth
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
War
category

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war – nothing material or ideological – no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating. – George Wald

Category:
War

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasnt easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. – John le Carre

Category:
War

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war. – Bernard Baruch

Category:
War

Secret operations are essential in war upon them the army relies to make its every move. – Sun Tzu

Category:
War

Random Quotes

Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that. – Li Ka Shing

Category:
Society

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. – Thomas Jefferson

Category:
best

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger. – Gary Oldman

Category:
Anger

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Civilization