“The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.” MenHumansBookStatesMomentsHelpingLawReadingGamesHuman BeingsRoomsFireWifeCoupleProtectHusbandWasteOrdinaryEconomicsGardenIncreaseArmyPoliceCourtThis LifeEtcWasting TimeParliamentDiggingHusband And WifePubsChattingDarts Book:Mere Christianity Source: Mere Christianity
“One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.” HumansStatesCertainHuman BeingsFailingGreatnessBuildingDisciplineOvercomingArmyEmpiresSuperiorityHierarchyEmpire State BuildingEmpire State Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed, if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.” IfsMenWorldNeedsHumansWould BeSchoolHuman BeingsLeaderBoysRepublicanMen And WomenArmyManagementSalvationOfficersEducatorSalesmanPlumberBusiness ManSalvation ArmyArmy Officers Author:Sinclair Lewis
“Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than the aesthetic. The spectacle of human beings reduced to automatism satisfies the lust for power. Looking at mechanized slaves, one fancies oneself a master.” HumansBeautifulHuman BeingsPowerMastersArmySlaveInstinctOneselfCrowdsArchitectureLustFancyAestheticUniformsDrillsLust For Power Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point