You got rid of them. Yes, thatโs just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether โtis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end themโฆ But you donโt do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. Itโs too easy.
Aldous HuxleyImpulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well being.
Aldous HuxleyArmaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.
Aldous Huxley