I would rather,' he said, 'give a healthy boy or a healthy girl a phial of prussic acid than this novel.' (And here let me pause to make Mr. Douglas … - Aldous Huxley

These," he said gravely, "are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant.

the fact that there was this capacity even in a paranoiac for intelligence, even in a devil worshipper for love; the fact that the ground of all being could be totally manifest in a flowering shrub, a human face; the fact that there was a light and that this light was also compassion.

It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted. Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual — and after all what is an individual? With a sweeping gesture he indicated the rows of microscopes, the test-tubes, the incubators. We can make a new one with the greatest ease — As many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the lie of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself, he repeated.