Quote by Aldous Huxley
The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendenc

The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth. – Aldous Huxley

Other quotes by Aldous Huxley

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners — let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. – Aldous Huxley

Category:
Hypocrisy
Read Quote

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. – Aldous Huxley

Category:
Bureaucracy
Read Quote

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the authors soul. – Aldous Huxley

Category:
good
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Speeches
category

His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea. – Author Unknown

Category:
Speeches

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave. – Dale Carnegie

Category:
Speeches

I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches. – Adlai E. Stevenson

Category:
Speeches

Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions. – Joseph Chatfield

Category:
Speeches

Random Quotes

Materialism is a circumference without a centre. Idealism is a centre without a circumference. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

Category:
Ideals

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good. – Mary Douglas

Category:
Religion

When great questions end, little parties begin. – Walter Bagehot

Category:
Politics

I love to go shopping at Target. They have so much stuff there, you can buy almost anything, its really amazing. – Liv Tyler

Category:
amazing