Aldous Huxley Quotes About Anarchy

Quotes about: Anarchy

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Worst Enemy, Common Decency, Literature

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “Adonis and the alphabet: and other essays”

• 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 .

  Aldous Huxley

  Lying, Civilization, Waiting

• The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.

  Aldous Huxley

  Anarchy, Utopia, Wave

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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