Aldous Huxley
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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. ✨ Aldous Huxley (1937). Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization, p.71, Transaction Publishers

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