Carolina QuotesHelen’s was the usual communist argument — no peace or social justice without a preliminary “liquidation” of capitalists, liberals and so forth. As though you could use violent, unjust means and achieve peace and justice! Means determine ends; and must be like the ends proposed. Means intrinsically different from the ends proposed achieve ends like themselves, not like those they were meant to achieve.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Ch. 23
- work
- Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
- year
- 1936
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