Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. – Aldous Huxley
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. – Aldous Huxley
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. – Aldous Huxley
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. – Aldous Huxley
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
One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters. – Aldous Huxley
Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted. – Dee Dee Myers