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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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I believe in the power of weakness. – Pat Buckley

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