Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. – Aldous Huxley
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. – Aldous Huxley
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. – Aldous Huxley
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. – Aldous Huxley
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. – Hannah Arendt