Un Mundo Feliz Aldous Huxley Quotes & Sayings

But looking under the covers of Indian democracy one sees a more complex and troubling reality. In recent decades, India has become something quite different from the picture in the hearts of its admirers. Not that it is less democratic: in important ways it has become more democratic. But it has become less tolerant, less secular, less law-abiding, less liberal. And these two trends - democratization and illiberalism - are directly related. — Fareed Zakaria

The problem with people that ignore people they dislike is they can't ignore them. Anger carries a person in your mind forever, whether you choose to speak to them or not. Therefore, don't mistake prosperity or accomplishments as resolution. You can't escape what you will not deal with. The day you can stand in the room with someone and not be affected is the day you truly moved on. — Shannon L. Alder

Around me a million people are living, breathing, eating, arguing. A million lives completely divorced from mine. It is a strange sort of peace. — Jojo Moyes

States with tremendous oil and natural gas reserves have the most to gain economically from proper regulation. — Gina McCarthy

Most discoveries become imaginable at a very specific moment in history, after which point multiple people start to imagine them. — Steven Johnson

And, he added with a laugh, you don't ever notice your oxygen until it's gone: something goes wrong with the HVAC, even for fifteen minutes, and people are ready to riot. — Teju Cole

Without love I was one who had lost the way; of a sudden love entered. I was a mountain; I became a straw for the horse of the king. — Jalaluddin Rumi

Each murder is one too many. — Jurgen Habermas

Outing is brutal and it should be reserved for brutes — Dan Savage

When a country has substituted credit money or fiat money for metallic money, because the legal equating of the over-issued paper and the metallic money sets in motion the mechanism described by Gresham's Law, it is often asserted that the balance of payments determines the rate of exchange. But this also is a quite inadequate explanation. The rate of exchange is determined by the purchasing power possessed by a unit of each kind of money. — Ludwig Von Mises

When you're lost in the middle of a set of dominoes, you can't see the pattern that's forming in the falling blocks around you. — James Renner

Empathy is the ultimate form of customer insight. — Don Peppers

A lot of people think that domestic violence is if someone hits, kicks, [or] punches you. — Robin McGraw

Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really know what we are doing. — Edsger Dijkstra