A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. Aldous Huxley bureaucracyceasecountry share on social
That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep. Aldous Huxley blessdueexclusively Change image and share on social
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. Aldous Huxley completelyconsistenthistory Change image and share on social
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. Aldous Huxley activityamourhuman Change image and share on social
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 existfullinterest Change image and share on social
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. Aldous Huxley authorbadbook Change image and share on social
God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. Aldous Huxley choicechoosecivilization Change image and share on social
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. Aldous Huxley ambitionbehavebeing share on social
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. Aldous Huxley divideknowledgethink Change image and share on social
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 beingcondemnconvention share on social