Quote by Aldous Huxley
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for dome

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. – Aldous Huxley

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God isnt compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. – Aldous Huxley

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God
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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. – Aldous Huxley

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Death
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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. – Aldous Huxley

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The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. – David Hare

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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. – Mark Twain, quoted in More Maxims of Mark compiled by Merle Johnson, 1927

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Civilization

A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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