Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
("Crome Yellow")
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The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.Aldous Huxley
A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tails a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.
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What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
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What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
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When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.
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I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I've got something important to say and the power to say it only I don't know what it is, and I can't make any use of the power.
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