#less

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#better #bigger #dissatisfaction #feels #ferment

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

Several excuses are always less convincing than one. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#convincing #excuses #less #several #than

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#changes #charm #completely #consist #different

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cunning #fight #life #most #personal

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#ambitious #content #despise #doubting #exertions

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#against #away #else #everything #gnaws

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#baseless #been #doctrine #equal #fiction

Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts. ↗

— Mark Hyman

#counterparts #diabetes #earn #finish #harder