"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."

-- Aldous Huxley

#Beautiful Quotes #Army Quotes #Power Quotes

“And this is the third place car about to lap the second place car.”
“I realize that's why we play golf, to hit the ball into the hole. But it is a strange feeling when you hit the shot and it actually goes in.”
“Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.”
“The pope being informed of the great increase of Protestantism, in the year 1542 sent inquisitors to Venice to make an inquiry into the matter, and apprehend such as they might deem obnoxious persons.”

Source : John Foxe, William Byron Forbush (2004). “Foxe's Book of Martyrs”, p.128, Hendrickson Publishers
“All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far.”
“Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.”

Source : Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.271, Bloomsbury Publishing
“The logistic requirements for a large, elaborate mission to Mars are no greater that those for a minor military operation extending over a limited theatre of war.”
“You can't control things by being nervous ...”

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