“What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no persona...” — Aldous Huxley Quote

“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.”

“Alas, higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue, or higher political wisdom.”

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”

“Dream in a pragmatic way.”

“The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.”

“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.”

“My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.”

“The anchovy which is found in the sea at Athens, men despise on account of its abundance and say that it is a poor man's fish; but in other cities, they prize it above everything, even where it is far inferior to the Attic anchovy.”

“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.”

“Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.”

“All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.”

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”