In the course of history it has often happened that one or other of the imperfect religions has been taken too seriously and regarded as good and tru… - Aldous Huxley

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

En contraste con las masas, los intelectuales tienen afición a la racionalidad e interés por los hechos. Su hábito mental crítico los hace resistentes a la clase de propaganda que funciona también sobre la mayoría. Entre las masas "el instinto es supremo y del instinto surge la fe... Mientras la sana gente común estrecha instintivamente sus filas para formar la comunidad de un pueblo ( bajo un Jefe, sobra decirlo ), los intelectuales van de un lado a otro, como gallinas en un gallinero. Con ellos no se puede hacer historia; no pueden ser utilizados como elementos componentes de una comunidad."

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.