Carolina QuotesLiberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Chapter 1 (p. 14)
- work
- Brave New World Revisited (1958)
- year
- 1958
- locator
- p. 14
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