Quote by Aldous Huxley
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instr

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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Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. – Aldous Huxley

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It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all ones life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than try to be a little kinder. – Aldous Huxley

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

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Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film. – Jesse Ventura

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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground. – T. D. Jakes

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I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldnt say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media. – Todd Gitlin

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A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along? – Jon Meacham

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Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy. – Joel Osteen

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