Quote by Aldous Huxley
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over the

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. – Aldous Huxley

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Cynical realism is the intelligent mans best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. – Aldous Huxley

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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

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

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To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and thats real power. – Ayn Rand

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Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why were here: Were here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature. – Rainn Wilson

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I believe in the power of weakness. – Pat Buckley

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Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we werent able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans. – Joan Jett

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