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“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.”

Aldous Huxley · Power

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Aldous Huxley

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

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Aldous Huxley

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

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Aldous Huxley

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

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Aldous Huxley

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

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