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Huxley, Leonard

Born: 1860 AD
Died: 1933 AD, at 73 years of age.

Nationality: Unknown
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English author and editor

 

son of Thomas Huxley

 

father of Aldous Huxley, Andrew Huxley, and Julian Huxley






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  • "The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind-manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will rea"
  • "My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger."
  • "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
  • "One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous."
  • "The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface."
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