Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. – Aldous Huxley
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love – almost as violent and much more mischievous. – Aldous Huxley
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. – Aldous Huxley
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. – Aldous Huxley
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time. – Winston Churchill