From Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British author, “A Case of Voluntary Ignorance” in Collected Essays (1959).
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
From Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British author, Ends and Means (1937):
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.
From Aldous Huxley, (1894–1963), British author, “Pacifism and Philosophy” (1936);
All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
