Aldous Huxley Quotes
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World Revisited. Harper & Brothers, 1958, p. 45.
The claims made by some Republicans were so absurd and extreme that the whole Party was tarred. Some even claimed that the legislation required “Death Panels” which would decide on which elderly people would be treated and which should be abandoned to no die with no treatment when there was no such thing even proposed by anyone, much less passed in the legislation.
This sentiment was apparently first expressed by the English Calvinist Minister, Charles Spurgeon, 1834-1892.
See Ben Franklin for an earlier similar sentiment {465143}.
See {115604} for a similar sentiment from England.
After the Constitution had been ratified, there was a concerted attempt on the part of the Southern Slave States to minimize the importance of the Declaration of Independence. They feared that the equality principle in the Declaration should be seen by Americans as desirable policy which clearly meant slavery was untenable. There were three approaches all used by the Southerners. First, they tried to make it clear that the Declaration had no weight in American law or moral principles as it was superseded by the Constitution. Second, they claimed that it could only have applied to white men as Black males were not really men. Third, that the statement was patently false. This quotation illustrates the latter.
Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books—both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.
