Carolina QuotesHowever hard they try, men cannot create a social organism, they can only create an organization. In the process of trying to create an organism they will merely create a totalitarian despotism.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Chapter 3 (p. 24)
- work
- Brave New World Revisited (1958)
- year
- 1958
- locator
- p. 24
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“However hard they try, men cannot create a social organism, …” Aldous Huxley. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-591509B1AC. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/591509b1ac
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