Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Chapter 3 (p. 20)
- work
- Brave New World Revisited (1958)
- year
- 1958
- locator
- p. 20
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