O brave new world, that has such people in't!

Not Rocket Science

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfils our worst wishes. 

In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. 

Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. 

— Aldous Huxley

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. 

— George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. 

— Bertrand Russell

Heroism on command, 

senseless violence, 

and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism

 – how passionately I hate them! 

— Albert Einstein

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. 

— Oscar Wilde

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. 

— Samuel Johnson

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill. 

— Richard Aldington

Revolving Doors Of Perception

The Doors Of Reception

The Doors of Perception

Life Imitating Art

Brave New World

The Doors Of Perception

Beyond Belief

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
 ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

Machophilia

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

 — Aldous Huxley

Grave New World

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

 — Aldous Huxley

Proselytising Zeal

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 proselytising zeal on behalf of religious or political ideas.

 — Aldous Huxley

No Exit

An Inconvenient Truth