That the other suffers must be learned; and it can never be learned completely.
“Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness. Mass production demanded the shift. Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can’t.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“A love of nature keeps no factories busy.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“Those who are still in a state to require being taken care of by others, must be protected against their own actions as well as against external injury.”
― On Liberty
― On Liberty
“I used to watch the line where earth and sky met, and longed to go and seek there the key of all mysteries, thinking that I might find there a new life, perhaps some great city where life should be grander and richer—and then it struck me that life may be grand enough even in a prison.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
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