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Aldous Huxley
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.