Aldous Huxley Quotes

Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.

It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.

I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.

Politics is an instrument that can transform society.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the '80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics.

Politics is dirty. Politics is exciting. Politics is often very, very difficult and disappointing. And I really would rather the world would be a little more like it was when my dad was young, where you knew pretty much where people stood on the great moral issues.

It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.

I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.

Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.

Culture does matter, but politics can change culture.

There was a time when liberals were linguistically dominant in America.

The language of priorities is the religion of Socialism.

These words are more revolutionary than anything written by Robespierre, Marx, or Lenin.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion can change the government practically just so much.

All political action aims at either preservation or change.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

It is hard to argue that the conservative movement is not having success.

It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action.

Every once in a while, an election comes along, and who you are and what you believe gets subsumed in a larger tide. It just happens.

To feel that literature has any politically redemptive power at all just seems increasingly naive.

I first learned the power of a Labour government to transform lives growing up in my hometown of Stockport.

If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose it by force of arms.

The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.

The left don't get what they want without the government forcing people to do it is the bottom line.