Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice. - Aldous Huxley

The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situation. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and simplification help us to understand - but help us, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our comprehension may be only of the abbreviator's neatly formulated notions, not of the vast, ramifying reality from which these notions have been so arbitrarily abstracted.

He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’
‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,’ said the Savage promptly.
‘Quite so…

"But if you know about God, why don’t you tell them?' asked the Savage indignantly.
'Why don’t you give them these books about God?'
'For the same reason as we don’t give them Othello: they’re old; they’re about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now.'
'But God doesn’t change.'
'Men do, though.'
'What difference does that make?'
"All the difference in the world,' said Mustapha Mond.