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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

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#important #learn #lessons #men #most

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#crafted #hear #i #immediacy #lot

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#bullying #ends #everyone #good #human

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #capacity #granted #human #human beings

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#darkness #explained #fantastic #know #more

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#ignorance #know #most #want

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#enough #foot #higher #him #hold

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#always #bed #before #being #clock

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#better #brain #cannot #did #had