Carolina QuotesAll war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
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"Pacifism and Philosophy" (1936)
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- 1936
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