"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."

— Aldous Huxley

"At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political ideas."

— Aldous Huxley

"We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads."

— Herman Melville

"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."

— Will Durant