The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

Quote by Aldous Huxley

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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one...

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one...

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory,...

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory,...

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of...

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of...

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself,...

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself,...

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some...

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some...

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease...

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease...

All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it...

All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it...

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as...

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as...

Knowing who in fact we are results in Good Being, and Good Being results in...

Knowing who in fact we are results in Good Being, and Good Being results in...

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his...

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his...

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened...

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened...

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual...

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual...

I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man...

I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man...

Rumor: Weapons of mass hypnosis are found in the USA

Rumor: Weapons of mass hypnosis are found in the USA