#ned

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour! ↗

— Lauren Hutton

#christian #hour #house #i #learned

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.' ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#been #bit #concerned #embarrassing #end

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cease #country #democracy #democratic #effectively

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #condemned #conventions #fact #human

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#absurd #another #blood #cold #men

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#defined #doubt #fanatic #man #psychological

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#darkness #explained #fantastic #know #more

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#always #charmed #disillusioned #fathers #rebellious

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#harmful #held #irrationally #may #more

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#extent #feel #glands #great #great extent