Quote by Aldous Huxley
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary time

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. – Aldous Huxley

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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. – Aldous Huxley

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Conformity
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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

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Hypocrisy
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As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also. – Thomas Jefferson

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. – John Stuart Mill

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Men

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime. – Edgar Allan Poe

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As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. – Christopher Dawson

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