#ally

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. ↗

#intoxicate #people #really #see #themselves

Some people argue that we should limit choice in favour of good local services. My response is simple: why should we assume those two concepts are mutually exclusive? ↗

— John Hutton

#assume #choice #concepts #exclusive #favour

Avedon wouldn't let me put wax between my teeth like I usually did. ↗

— Lauren Hutton

#did #i #like #me #put

Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to. ↗

— Lauren Hutton

#fix #ford #great #had #i

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

#cease #country #democracy #democratic #effectively

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#agreeable #almost #boredom #comes #excessive

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #either #hang #human #human beings

I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke. ↗

— Peta Wilson

#because #cry #grown #grown men #i

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#experienced #personally #platitudes #proverbs #them

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ↗